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 2024A Cognitive Model for Learning Abstract Relational Structures from Memory-based Decision-Making Tasks
2. ICLR 2024A differentiable brain simulator bridging brain simulation and brain-inspired computing
3. ICLR 2024A Framework for Inference Inspired by Human Memory Mechanisms
4. ICLR 2024A Lie Group Approach to Riemannian Batch Normalization
5. ICLR 2024A Plug-and-Play Image Registration Network
6. ICLR 2024A Progressive Training Framework for Spiking Neural Networks with Learnable Multi-hierarchical Model
7. ICLR 2024A Stable, Fast, and Fully Automatic Learning Algorithm for Predictive Coding Networks
8. ICLR 2024A Unified and General Framework for Continual Learning
9. ICLR 2024Adaptive deep spiking neural network with global-local learning via balanced excitatory and inhibitory mechanism
10. ICLR 2024An operator preconditioning perspective on training in physics-informed machine learning
11. ICLR 2024Automatic Functional Differentiation in JAX
12. ICLR 2024Bayesian Bi-clustering of Neural Spiking Activity with Latent Structures
13. ICLR 2024Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception
14. ICLR 2024BrainLM: A foundation model for brain activity recordings
15. ICLR 2024BrainSCUBA: Fine-Grained Natural Language Captions of Visual Cortex Selectivity
16. ICLR 2024CAMIL: Context-Aware Multiple Instance Learning for Cancer Detection and Subtyping in Whole Slide Images
17. ICLR 2024CellPLM: Pre-training of Cell Language Model Beyond Single Cells
18. ICLR 2024CLIP-MUSED: CLIP-Guided Multi-Subject Visual Neural Information Semantic Decoding
19. ICLR 2024COCO-Periph: Bridging the Gap Between Human and Machine Perception in the Periphery
20. ICLR 2024Complete and Efficient Graph Transformers for Crystal Material Property Prediction
21. ICLR 2024Complex priors and flexible inference in recurrent circuits with dendritic nonlinearities
22. ICLR 2024Continuous Field Reconstruction from Sparse Observations with Implicit Neural Networks
23. ICLR 2024Critical Learning Periods Emerge Even in Deep Linear Networks
24. ICLR 2024Crystalformer: Infinitely Connected Attention for Periodic Structure Encoding
25. ICLR 2024Decoding Natural Images from EEG for Object Recognition
26. ICLR 2024Deep Geodesic Canonical Correlation Analysis for Covariance-Based Neuroimaging Data
27. ICLR 2024Defining Expertise: Applications to Treatment Effect Estimation
28. ICLR 2024Diffeomorphic Mesh Deformation via Efficient Optimal Transport for Cortical Surface Reconstruction
29. ICLR 2024DNABERT-2: Efficient Foundation Model and Benchmark For Multi-Species Genomes
30. ICLR 2024Emergent Communication with Conversational Repair
31. ICLR 2024Emergent mechanisms for long timescales depend on training curriculum and affect performance in memory tasks
32. ICLR 2024Enhancing Small Medical Learners with Privacy-preserving Contextual Prompting
33. ICLR 2024Epitopological learning and Cannistraci-Hebb network shape intelligence brain-inspired theory for ultra-sparse advantage in deep learning
34. ICLR 2024Estimating Shape Distances on Neural Representations with Limited Samples
35. ICLR 2024Evaluating Representation Learning on the Protein Structure Universe
36. ICLR 2024Exploring Effective Stimulus Encoding via Vision System Modeling for Visual Prostheses
37. ICLR 2024Fast and unified path gradient estimators for normalizing flows
38. ICLR 2024Fine-Tuned Language Models Generate Stable Inorganic Materials as Text
39. ICLR 2024FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning
40. ICLR 2024Forward Learning with Top-Down Feedback: Empirical and Analytical Characterization
41. ICLR 2024How connectivity structure shapes rich and lazy learning in neural circuits
42. ICLR 2024Implicit Gaussian process representation of vector fields over arbitrary latent manifolds
43. ICLR 2024In-Context Learning Dynamics with Random Binary Sequences
44. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Generative Classifiers
45. ICLR 2024Invariance-based Learning of Latent Dynamics
46. ICLR 2024Large Brain Model for Learning Generic Representations with Tremendous EEG Data in BCI
47. ICLR 2024Large Content And Behavior Models To Understand, Simulate, And Optimize Content And Behavior
48. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Optimizers
49. ICLR 2024Learning Delays in Spiking Neural Networks using Dilated Convolutions with Learnable Spacings
50. ICLR 2024Learning dynamic representations of the functional connectome in neurobiological networks

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.