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 2025A Machine Learning Approach to Duality in Statistical Physics
2. ICML 2025A Model of Place Field Reorganization During Reward Maximization
3. ICML 2025A Multi-Region Brain Model to Elucidate the Role of Hippocampus in Spatially Embedded Decision-Making
4. ICML 2025A New Concentration Inequality for Sampling Without Replacement and Its Application for Transductive Learning
5. ICML 2025A Novel Characterization of the Population Area Under the Risk Coverage Curve (AURC) and Rates of Finite Sample Estimators
6. ICML 2025Accurate Identification of Communication Between Multiple Interacting Neural Populations
7. ICML 2025Alberta Wells Dataset: Pinpointing Oil and Gas Wells from Satellite Imagery
8. ICML 2025All-atom Diffusion Transformers: Unified generative modelling of molecules and materials
9. ICML 2025An Instrumental Value for Data Production and its Application to Data Pricing
10. ICML 2025AnalogGenie-Lite: Enhancing Scalability and Precision in Circuit Topology Discovery through Lightweight Graph Modeling
11. ICML 2025Asymmetric Decision-Making in Online Knowledge Distillation: Unifying Consensus and Divergence
12. ICML 2025Auto-reconfiguration for Latency Minimization in CPU-based DNN Serving
13. ICML 2025Average Sensitivity of Hierarchical $k$-Median Clustering
14. ICML 2025Balancing Efficiency and Expressiveness: Subgraph GNNs with Walk-Based Centrality
15. ICML 2025Breaking Barriers: Combinatorial Algorithms for Non-Monotone Submodular Maximization with Sublinear Adaptivity and $1/e$ Approximation
16. ICML 2025Bridging Layout and RTL: Knowledge Distillation based Timing Prediction
17. ICML 2025BSO: Binary Spiking Online Optimization Algorithm
18. ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
19. ICML 2025Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation
20. ICML 2025CFPT: Empowering Time Series Forecasting through Cross-Frequency Interaction and Periodic-Aware Timestamp Modeling
21. ICML 2025Chaos Meets Attention: Transformers for Large-Scale Dynamical Prediction
22. ICML 2025Closed-form Solutions: A New Perspective on Solving Differential Equations
23. ICML 2025CogReact: A Reinforced Framework to Model Human Cognitive Reaction Modulated by Dynamic Intervention
24. ICML 2025Comparing Comparisons: Informative and Easy Human Feedback with Distinguishability Queries
25. ICML 2025Compressed and distributed least-squares regression: convergence rates with applications to federated learning
26. ICML 2025Context-Informed Neural ODEs Unexpectedly Identify Broken Symmetries: Insights from the Poincaré–Hopf Theorem
27. ICML 2025Contextual Linear Bandits with Delay as Payoff
28. ICML 2025Contour Integration Underlies Human-Like Vision
29. ICML 2025CoPINN: Cognitive Physics-Informed Neural Networks
30. ICML 2025Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models
31. ICML 2025CVE-Bench: A Benchmark for AI Agents’ Ability to Exploit Real-World Web Application Vulnerabilities
32. ICML 2025Deep Neural Cellular Potts Models
33. ICML 2025Deep Ridgelet Transform and Unified Universality Theorem for Deep and Shallow Joint-Group-Equivariant Machines
34. ICML 2025Dendritic Localized Learning: Toward Biologically Plausible Algorithm
35. ICML 2025Diagonal Symmetrization of Neural Network Solvers for the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation
36. ICML 2025Differential Coding for Training-Free ANN-to-SNN Conversion
37. ICML 2025Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior
38. ICML 2025Discrete and Continuous Difference of Submodular Minimization
39. ICML 2025DUNIA: Pixel-Sized Embeddings via Cross-Modal Alignment for Earth Observation Applications
40. ICML 2025Dynamical Modeling of Behaviorally Relevant Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neural Imaging Data
41. ICML 2025Dynamical phases of short-term memory mechanisms in RNNs
42. ICML 2025E-LDA: Toward Interpretable LDA Topic Models with Strong Guarantees in Logarithmic Parallel Time
43. ICML 2025EEG-Language Pretraining for Highly Label-Efficient Clinical Phenotyping
44. ICML 2025Efficient and Scalable Density Functional Theory Hamiltonian Prediction through Adaptive Sparsity
45. ICML 2025Efficient ANN-SNN Conversion with Error Compensation Learning
46. ICML 2025Evaluating LLMs Across Multi-Cognitive Levels: From Medical Knowledge Mastery to Scenario-Based Problem Solving
47. ICML 2025Faster and Stronger: When ANN-SNN Conversion Meets Parallel Spiking Calculation
48. ICML 2025Faster Global Minimum Cut with Predictions
49. ICML 2025Feature Learning beyond the Lazy-Rich Dichotomy: Insights from Representational Geometry
50. ICML 2025Finding Wasserstein Ball Center: Efficient Algorithm and The Applications in Fairness

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.