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

151 papers, page 1 of 4

1. ICLR 2025A Computational Framework for Modeling Emergence of Color Vision in the Human Brain
2. ICLR 2025A Second-Order Perspective on Model Compositionality and Incremental Learning
3. ICLR 2025A Unified Framework for Forward and Inverse Problems in Subsurface Imaging using Latent Space Translations
4. ICLR 2025Accurate and Scalable Graph Neural Networks via Message Invariance
5. ICLR 2025Adaptive Shrinkage Estimation for Personalized Deep Kernel Regression in Modeling Brain Trajectories
6. ICLR 2025AI as Humanity’s Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text
7. ICLR 2025Animate Your Thoughts: Reconstruction of Dynamic Natural Vision from Human Brain Activity
8. ICLR 2025AutoG: Towards automatic graph construction from tabular data
9. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Predictive Coding Networks -- Made Simple
10. ICLR 2025Beyond single neurons: population response geometry in digital twins of mouse visual cortex
11. ICLR 2025Biologically Constrained Barrel Cortex Model Integrates Whisker Inputs and Replicates Key Brain Network Dynamics
12. ICLR 2025BLEND: Behavior-guided Neural Population Dynamics Modeling via Privileged Knowledge Distillation
13. ICLR 2025Boltzmann-Aligned Inverse Folding Model as a Predictor of Mutational Effects on Protein-Protein Interactions
14. ICLR 2025BoneMet: An Open Large-Scale Multi-Modal Murine Dataset for Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis Diagnosis and Prognosis
15. ICLR 2025BRAID: Input-driven Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling of Neural-Behavioral Data
16. ICLR 2025Brain Bandit: A Biologically Grounded Neural Network for Efficient Control of Exploration
17. ICLR 2025Brain Mapping with Dense Features: Grounding Cortical Semantic Selectivity in Natural Images With Vision Transformers
18. ICLR 2025BrainACTIV: Identifying visuo-semantic properties driving cortical selectivity using diffusion-based image manipulation
19. ICLR 2025BrainUICL: An Unsupervised Individual Continual Learning Framework for EEG Applications
20. ICLR 2025Bridging the Gap between Database Search and \emph{De Novo} Peptide Sequencing with SearchNovo
21. ICLR 2025Bridging the Gap Between f-divergences and Bayes Hilbert Spaces
22. ICLR 2025Building, Reusing, and Generalizing Abstract Representations from Concrete Sequences
23. ICLR 2025CBraMod: A Criss-Cross Brain Foundation Model for EEG Decoding
24. ICLR 2025Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances
25. ICLR 2025Composing Unbalanced Flows for Flexible Docking and Relaxation
26. ICLR 2025Conditional Diffusion with Ordinal Regression: Longitudinal Data Generation for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies
27. ICLR 2025Correlating instruction-tuning (in multimodal models) with vision-language processing (in the brain)
28. ICLR 2025Credit-based self organizing maps: training deep topographic networks with minimal performance degradation
29. ICLR 2025CREIMBO: Cross-Regional Ensemble Interactions in Multi-view Brain Observations
30. ICLR 2025CS-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models towards Computer Science Mastery
31. ICLR 2025CURIE: Evaluating LLMs on Multitask Scientific Long-Context Understanding and Reasoning
32. ICLR 2025Debiasing Mini-Batch Quadratics for Applications in Deep Learning
33. ICLR 2025DeeperForward: Enhanced Forward-Forward Training for Deeper and Better Performance
34. ICLR 2025DeepTAGE: Deep Temporal-Aligned Gradient Enhancement for Optimizing Spiking Neural Networks
35. ICLR 2025Descent with Misaligned Gradients and Applications to Hidden Convexity
36. ICLR 2025Differentiable and Learnable Wireless Simulation with Geometric Transformers
37. ICLR 2025Differentiable Optimization of Similarity Scores Between Models and Brains
38. ICLR 2025Discovering Temporally Compositional Neural Manifolds with Switching Infinite GPFA
39. ICLR 2025Discretization-invariance? On the Discretization Mismatch Errors in Neural Operators
40. ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
41. ICLR 2025Disentangling 3D Animal Pose Dynamics with Scrubbed Conditional Latent Variables
42. ICLR 2025Disentangling Representations through Multi-task Learning
43. ICLR 2025Distilling Structural Representations into Protein Sequence Models
44. ICLR 2025Do Mice Grok? Glimpses of Hidden Progress in Sensory Cortex
45. ICLR 2025Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?
46. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
47. ICLR 2025Efficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models
48. ICLR 2025Efficient Neuron Segmentation in Electron Microscopy by Affinity-Guided Queries
49. ICLR 2025Emergent Orientation Maps —— Mechanisms, Coding Efficiency and Robustness
50. ICLR 2025Enhancing the Scalability and Applicability of Kohn-Sham Hamiltonians for Molecular Systems

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.