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

342 papers, page 1 of 7

1. NeurIPS 2025$\mu$PC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100+ Layer Networks
2. NeurIPS 2025$i$MIND: Insightful Multi-subject Invariant Neural Decoding
3. NeurIPS 20253D Gaussian Splatting based Scene-independent Relocalization with Unidirectional and Bidirectional Feature Fusion
4. NeurIPS 20253D Interaction Geometric Pre-training for Molecular Relational Learning
5. NeurIPS 2025A data and task-constrained mechanistic model of the mouse outer retina shows robustness to contrast variations
6. NeurIPS 2025A Dynamic Learning Strategy for Dempster-Shafer Theory with Applications in Classification and Enhancement
7. NeurIPS 2025A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder
8. NeurIPS 2025A Generalized Bisimulation Metric of State Similarity between Markov Decision Processes: From Theoretical Propositions to Applications
9. NeurIPS 2025A Multimodal BiMamba Network with Test-Time Adaptation for Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Signals
10. NeurIPS 2025A Partition Cover Approach to Tokenization
11. NeurIPS 2025A Plug-and-Play Query Synthesis Active Learning Framework for Neural PDE Solvers
12. NeurIPS 2025A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty: Applications to Peer Review and Grant Funding
13. NeurIPS 2025A Scalable, Causal, and Energy Efficient Framework for Neural Decoding with Spiking Neural Networks
14. NeurIPS 2025Absorb and Converge: Provable Convergence Guarantee for Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Models
15. NeurIPS 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Visual-Token Exit and the Empirical Findings
16. NeurIPS 2025Acceleration via silver step-size on Riemannian manifolds with applications to Wasserstein space
17. NeurIPS 2025Activity Pruning for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
18. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Fission: Post-training Encoding for Low-latency Spike Neural Networks
19. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Gradient Masking for Balancing ID and MLLM-based Representations in Recommendation
20. NeurIPS 2025ADMN: A Layer-Wise Adaptive Multimodal Network for Dynamic Input Noise and Compute Resources
21. NeurIPS 2025AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims
22. NeurIPS 2025AI-Generated Video Detection via Perceptual Straightening
23. NeurIPS 2025AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation
24. NeurIPS 2025Anatomically inspired digital twins capture hierarchical object representations in visual cortex
25. NeurIPS 2025ArchCAD-400K: A Large-Scale CAD drawings Dataset and New Baseline for Panoptic Symbol Spotting
26. NeurIPS 2025Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?
27. NeurIPS 2025AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy
28. NeurIPS 2025AtmosSci-Bench: Evaluating the Recent Advance of Large Language Model for Atmospheric Science
29. NeurIPS 2025Auditing Meta-Cognitive Hallucinations in Reasoning Large Language Models
30. NeurIPS 2025AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling
31. NeurIPS 2025BaRISTA: Brain Scale Informed Spatiotemporal Representation of Human Intracranial Neural Activity
32. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Pairwise Connections: Extracting High-Order Functional Brain Network Structures under Global Constraints
33. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Prediction: Managing the Repercussions of Machine Learning Applications
34. NeurIPS 2025Bézier Splatting for Fast and Differentiable Vector Graphics Rendering
35. NeurIPS 2025BioOSS: A Bio-Inspired Oscillatory State System with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
36. NeurIPS 2025Bipolar Self-attention for Spiking Transformers
37. NeurIPS 2025Bounds on the computational complexity of neurons due to dendritic morphology
38. NeurIPS 2025Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens
39. NeurIPS 2025Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected
40. NeurIPS 2025Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models
41. NeurIPS 2025Brain-Inspired fMRI-to-Text Decoding via Incremental and Wrap-Up Language Modeling
42. NeurIPS 2025Brain-Like Processing Pathways Form in Models With Heterogeneous Experts
43. NeurIPS 2025Brain-tuning Improves Generalizability and Efficiency of Brain Alignment in Speech Models
44. NeurIPS 2025BrainFlow: A Holistic Pathway of Dynamic Neural System on Manifold
45. NeurIPS 2025BrainMoE: Cognition Joint Embedding via Mixture-of-Expert Towards Robust Brain Foundation Model
46. NeurIPS 2025BrainODE: Neural Shape Dynamics for Age- and Disease-aware Brain Trajectories
47. NeurIPS 2025BrainOmni: A Brain Foundation Model for Unified EEG and MEG Signals
48. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Batch Barrier (B3) of Contrastive Learning via Smart Batch Mining
49. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks
50. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Critical Gaps in Convergent Learning: How Representational Alignment Evolves Across Layers, Training, and Distribution Shifts

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.