Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science went from 183 papers in 2023 to 753 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science work: 824 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 44 in 2026.
• Among the 10 topics under Application Domains, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Applications · health medicine, is up 61x versus 4.1x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026(Strongly) Replicable Distribution Testers imply High Probability Distribution Testers
• ICML 2026(Be Cautious!) Bio-Foundation Models Are Not Yet Robust to Biologically Plausible Perturbations and ML Transformations
• ICLR 2026A Biologically Plausible Dense Associative Memory with Exponential Capacity
• CVPR 2026Globscope Toward a Global View of the Loss Landscape
• NeurIPS 2025$\mu$PC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100+ Layer Networks
• ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
• ICLR 2025A Computational Framework for Modeling Emergence of Color Vision in the Human Brain
• CVPR 2025Blurred LiDAR for Sharper 3D: Robust Handheld 3D Scanning with Diffuse LiDAR and RGB
• NeurIPS 2024$\textit{NeuroPath}$: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Joining the Dots of Human Connectomes
• ICML 2024$\bf{\Phi}_\textrm{Flow}$: Differentiable Simulations for PyTorch, TensorFlow and Jax
• ICLR 2024A Cognitive Model for Learning Abstract Relational Structures from Memory-based Decision-Making Tasks
• CVPR 2024Efficient Detection of Long Consistent Cycles and its Application to Distributed Synchronization
• NeurIPS 2023Adaptive whitening with fast gain modulation and slow synaptic plasticity
• ICML 2023Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulations
• ICLR 2023A framework for benchmarking Class-out-of-distribution detection and its application to ImageNet
• CVPR 20233D Line Mapping Revisited
• NeurIPS 2026$\mathrm{Bounded\mbox{-}RS}$: A Bounded Evaluation Protocol and Testbed for Representational Systematicity
• ICML 2026A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation
• ICLR 2026A Brain Graph Foundation Model: Pre-Training and Prompt-Tuning across Broad Atlases and Disorders
• CVPR 2026LASAR Towards Spatio-temporal Reasoning with Latent Cognitive Map

All Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers

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1. ICLR 2023A framework for benchmarking Class-out-of-distribution detection and its application to ImageNet
2. ICLR 2023A Primal-Dual Framework for Transformers and Neural Networks
3. ICLR 2023A probabilistic framework for task-aligned intra- and inter-area neural manifold estimation
4. ICLR 2023A Theoretical Framework for Inference and Learning in Predictive Coding Networks
5. ICLR 2023A View From Somewhere: Human-Centric Face Representations
6. ICLR 2023Actionable Neural Representations: Grid Cells from Minimal Constraints
7. ICLR 2023Anisotropic Message Passing: Graph Neural Networks with Directional and Long-Range Interactions
8. ICLR 2023Backpropagation at the Infinitesimal Inference Limit of Energy-Based Models: Unifying Predictive Coding, Equilibrium Propagation, and Contrastive Hebbian Learning
9. ICLR 2023Bayesian Oracle for bounding information gain in neural encoding models
10. ICLR 2023Bort: Towards Explainable Neural Networks with Bounded Orthogonal Constraint
11. ICLR 2023BrainBERT: Self-supervised representation learning for intracranial recordings
12. ICLR 2023Bridging the Gap between ANNs and SNNs by Calibrating Offset Spikes
13. ICLR 2023Can Neural Networks Learn Implicit Logic from Physical Reasoning?
14. ICLR 2023Contextual bandits with concave rewards, and an application to fair ranking
15. ICLR 2023D4FT: A Deep Learning Approach to Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
16. ICLR 2023Distilling Cognitive Backdoor Patterns within an Image
17. ICLR 2023Efficient approximation of neural population structure and correlations with probabilistic circuits
18. ICLR 2023FINDE: Neural Differential Equations for Finding and Preserving Invariant Quantities
19. ICLR 2023Harnessing Out-Of-Distribution Examples via Augmenting Content and Style
20. ICLR 2023How gradient estimator variance and bias impact learning in neural networks
21. ICLR 2023HyperDeepONet: learning operator with complex target function space using the limited resources via hypernetwork
22. ICLR 2023Learned Index with Dynamic $\epsilon$
23. ICLR 2023MA-BERT: Towards Matrix Arithmetic-only BERT Inference by Eliminating Complex Non-Linear Functions
24. ICLR 2023ManyDG: Many-domain Generalization for Healthcare Applications
25. ICLR 2023Min-Max Multi-objective Bilevel Optimization with Applications in Robust Machine Learning
26. ICLR 2023Momentum Stiefel Optimizer, with Applications to Suitably-Orthogonal Attention, and Optimal Transport
27. ICLR 2023Noise-Robust De-Duplication at Scale
28. ICLR 2023On the Importance and Applicability of Pre-Training for Federated Learning
29. ICLR 2023On the Sensitivity of Reward Inference to Misspecified Human Models
30. ICLR 2023On the Trade-Off between Actionable Explanations and the Right to be Forgotten
31. ICLR 2023Progressive Voronoi Diagram Subdivision Enables Accurate Data-free Class-Incremental Learning
32. ICLR 2023Protein Representation Learning via Knowledge Enhanced Primary Structure Reasoning
33. ICLR 2023Provably Efficient Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning: Iterated CVaR and Worst Path
34. ICLR 2023Robust Fair Clustering: A Novel Fairness Attack and Defense Framework
35. ICLR 2023Simplicial Hopfield networks
36. ICLR 2023SmartFRZ: An Efficient Training Framework using Attention-Based Layer Freezing
37. ICLR 2023Thalamus: a brain-inspired algorithm for biologically-plausible continual learning and disentangled representations
38. ICLR 2023Training language models to summarize narratives improves brain alignment
39. ICLR 2023Understanding Neural Coding on Latent Manifolds by Sharing Features and Dividing Ensembles
40. ICLR 2023What Can we Learn From The Selective Prediction And Uncertainty Estimation Performance Of 523 Imagenet Classifiers?
41. ICLR 2023Where to Begin? On the Impact of Pre-Training and Initialization in Federated Learning
42. ICLR 2023WiNeRT: Towards Neural Ray Tracing for Wireless Channel Modelling and Differentiable Simulations
43. ICLR 2023Winning Both the Accuracy of Floating Point Activation and the Simplicity of Integer Arithmetic
44. ICLR 2023Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments

FAQ

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,033 in total: 183 in 2023, 424 in 2024, 673 in 2025, 753 in 2026.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 227 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 342 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 229 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 151 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 263 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 157 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 34 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 23 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers?

NeurIPS, with 824 papers from 2023 to 2026.