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. ICML 2026(Be Cautious!) Bio-Foundation Models Are Not Yet Robust to Biologically Plausible Perturbations and ML Transformations
2. ICML 2026(Sparse) Attention to the Details: Preserving Spectral Fidelity in ML-based Weather Forecasting Models
3. ICML 2026$\texttt{FlashSchNet}$: Fast and Accurate Coarse-Grained Neural Network Molecular Dynamics
4. ICML 2026A Cartesian-3j Framework for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
5. ICML 2026A Conflict-aware Evidential Framework for Reliable Sleep Stage Classification
6. ICML 2026A Deep Learning Model of Mental Rotation Informed by Interactive VR Experiments
7. ICML 2026A Dirac-Frenkel-Onsager Principle: Instantaneous Residual Minimization with Gauge Momentum for Nonlinear Parametrizations of PDE Solutions
8. ICML 2026A Factorized Low-Rank RNN Framework for Uncovering Independent Neural Latent Dynamics and Connectivity
9. ICML 2026A Geometric Lens on Physics-Aligned Data Compression
10. ICML 2026A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation
11. ICML 2026A recipe for scalable attention-based ML potentials: unlocking long-range accuracy with all-to-all node attention
12. ICML 2026A Spiking Heterogeneous Harmonic Resonate-and-Fire State Space Model for Time Series
13. ICML 2026A$^2$SG: Adaptive and Asymmetric Surrogate Gradients for Training Deep Spiking Neural Networks
14. ICML 2026Abstraction Induces the Brain Alignment of Language and Speech Models
15. ICML 2026Accelerating Regression Tasks with Quantum Algorithms
16. ICML 2026Adaptive Coding Emerges in Stabilized Supralinear Networks Trained with Local Plasticity
17. ICML 2026AdaS: Adaptive Gradient Descent for Spiking Transformers
18. ICML 2026AI Engram: In Search of Memory Traces in Artificial Intelligence
19. ICML 2026Alignment between Brains and AI: Evidence for Convergent Evolution across Modalities, Scales and Training Trajectories
20. ICML 2026Asymptotic Theory of Iterated Empirical Risk Minimization, with Applications to Active Learning
21. ICML 2026Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators
22. ICML 2026Bayesian Rain Field Reconstruction using Commercial Microwave Links and Diffusion Model Priors
23. ICML 2026Beyond Accuracy: Latent Perturbations for Cognitive-Aware Diagnosis
24. ICML 2026Beyond Two-Stage Training: Cooperative SFT and RL for LLM Reasoning
25. ICML 2026Bio-Vision-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Object Detection with Event Cameras
26. ICML 2026Biologically plausible heavy-tailed connectivity enhances generalizations on cognitive tasks in recurrent neural networks
27. ICML 2026BioProBench: A Corpus and Benchmark for Biological Protocol Reasoning in Autonomous Science
28. ICML 2026BIT-LLM: Brain Instruction Tuned LLM with persistent Cross-Attention for fMRI-to-Text Decoding
29. ICML 2026Blending Neural Control Density Functions for Stabilization and Safety
30. ICML 2026BLIPs: Bayesian Learned Interatomic Potentials
31. ICML 2026BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language
32. ICML 2026Bullet Trains: Parallelizing Training of Temporally Precise Spiking Neural Networks
33. ICML 2026CalM: A Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Population Dynamics in Calcium Imaging Data
34. ICML 2026Can local learning match self-supervised backpropagation?
35. ICML 2026Can Vision Language Models Learn Intuitive Physics from Interaction?
36. ICML 2026Certificates for Complex-Compatible Learned Cochain Laplacians
37. ICML 2026Cheap2Rich: A Multi-Fidelity Framework for Data Assimilation and System Identification of Multiscale Physics - Rotating Detonation Engines
38. ICML 2026Coarse-Grained Boltzmann Generators
39. ICML 2026CoEvol-NO: State and Coordinate Co-Evolution with an Error-Driven Predictor-Corrector Paradigm for Neural Operator Transformer
40. ICML 2026CoGe-GCD: Reframing Generalized Category Discovery with Compositional Generalization
41. ICML 2026Cognitive Fatigue in Autoregressive Transformers: Formalization and Measurement
42. ICML 2026Collapsed Effective Operators for Higher-order Structures
43. ICML 2026Conditional KRR: Injecting Unpenalized Features into Kernel Methods with Applications to Kernel Thresholding
44. ICML 2026Conditionally Site-Independent Neural Evolution of Antibody Sequences
45. ICML 2026Constrained hybrid modelling to predict microbial dynamics and organic matter turnover in soil systems
46. ICML 2026CONTEXTOR: Contextualized High-order Contrastive Learning
47. ICML 2026Convergence of Two-Timescale Markovian Stochastic Approximations with Applications in Reinforcement Learning
48. ICML 2026Convex Basins in Single-Index Model Loss Landscapes: Applications to Robust Recovery under Strong Adversarial Corruption
49. ICML 2026Correspondence Cognitive Learning for Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification
50. ICML 2026Coupled Cluster con MoLe: Molecular Orbital Learning for Neural Wavefunctions

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.