Clinical NLP papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Clinical NLP went from 15 papers in 2023 to 48 in 2026, roughly 3.2x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Clinical NLP work: 48 papers from 2023 to 2026, 47% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 14 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Health and Life Sciences, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Medical Imaging, is up 2.9x versus 3.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Artificial Aphasias in Lesioned Language Models
• ICML 2026NBCG: Nash-Bargained Causal Game for Long-Tailed Multi-Label NLP
• ICLR 2026Benchmarking ECG Foundational Models: A Reality Check Across Clinical Tasks
• CVPR 2026Med-CMR A Fine-Grained Benchmark Integrating Visual Evidence and Clinical Logic
• NeurIPS 2025Timely Clinical Diagnosis through Active Test Selection
• ICML 2025Doubly Protected Estimation for Survival Outcomes Utilizing External Controls for Randomized Clinical Trials
• ICLR 2025Effective post-training embedding compression via temperature control in contrastive training
• NeurIPS 2024Newswire: A Large-Scale Structured Database of a Century of Historical News
• ICML 2024Contrastive Learning for Clinical Outcome Prediction with Partial Data Sources
• ICLR 2024Faithful Explanations of Black-box NLP Models Using LLM-generated Counterfactuals
• NeurIPS 2023Text Alignment Is An Efficient Unified Model for Massive NLP Tasks
• ICML 2023Prefer to Classify: Improving Text Classifiers via Auxiliary Preference Learning
• ICLR 2023KnowDA: All-in-One Knowledge Mixture Model for Data Augmentation in Low-Resource NLP
• NeurIPS 2026Can Bits Seal Language?
• ICML 2026Attention Hijacking: Backdooring Text Dataset Distillation via Semantic Anchors
• ICLR 2026AP-OOD: Attention Pooling for Out-of- Distribution Detection
• CVPR 2026X-PCR A Benchmark for Cross-modality Progressive Clinical Reasoning in Ophthalmic
• NeurIPS 2025ClinBench: A Standardized Multi-Domain Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models in Clinical Information Extraction
• ICML 2025EEG-Language Pretraining for Highly Label-Efficient Clinical Phenotyping
• ICLR 2025Not All LLM-Generated Data Are Equal: Rethinking Data Weighting in Text Classification

All Clinical NLP papers

35 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026AbdCTBench: Learning Clinical Biomarker Representations from Abdominal Surface Geometry
2. ICLR 2026AP-OOD: Attention Pooling for Out-of- Distribution Detection
3. ICLR 2026Benchmarking ECG Foundational Models: A Reality Check Across Clinical Tasks
4. ICLR 2026BTZSC: A Benchmark for Zero-Shot Text Classification Across Cross-Encoders, Embedding Models, and Rerankers
5. ICLR 2026Can we generate portable representations for clinical time series data using LLMs?
6. ICLR 2026CerebraGloss: Instruction-Tuning a Large Vision-Language Model for Fine-Grained Clinical EEG Interpretation
7. ICLR 2026Doctor-R1: Mastering Clinical Inquiry with Experiential Agentic Reinforcement Learning
8. ICLR 2026HUME: Measuring the Human-Model Performance Gap in Text Embedding Tasks
9. ICLR 2026LiveClin: A Live Clinical Benchmark without Leakage
10. ICLR 2026MedLesionVQA: A Multimodal Benchmark Emulating Clinical Visual Diagnosis for Body Surface Health
11. ICLR 2026MrRoPE: Mixed-radix Rotary Position Embedding
12. ICLR 2026Tokenisation over Bounded Alphabets is Hard
13. ICLR 2025Context Clues: Evaluating Long Context Models for Clinical Prediction Tasks on EHR Data
14. ICLR 2025Effective post-training embedding compression via temperature control in contrastive training
15. ICLR 2025Fiddler: CPU-GPU Orchestration for Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts Models
16. ICLR 2025Not All LLM-Generated Data Are Equal: Rethinking Data Weighting in Text Classification
17. ICLR 2025Regretful Decisions under Label Noise
18. ICLR 2025Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
19. ICLR 2025The Foundations of Tokenization: Statistical and Computational Concerns
20. ICLR 2024Branch-GAN: Improving Text Generation with (not so) Large Language Models
21. ICLR 2024Closing the Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration
22. ICLR 2024Diagnosing Transformers: Illuminating Feature Spaces for Clinical Decision-Making
23. ICLR 2024Faithful Explanations of Black-box NLP Models Using LLM-generated Counterfactuals
24. ICLR 2024SEA: Sparse Linear Attention with Estimated Attention Mask
25. ICLR 2024What's In My Big Data?
26. ICLR 2024Yet Another ICU Benchmark: A Flexible Multi-Center Framework for Clinical ML
27. ICLR 2024Zoology: Measuring and Improving Recall in Efficient Language Models
28. ICLR 2023KnowDA: All-in-One Knowledge Mixture Model for Data Augmentation in Low-Resource NLP
29. ICLR 2023Language Modelling with Pixels
30. ICLR 2023Leveraging Large Language Models for Multiple Choice Question Answering
31. ICLR 2023Linear Connectivity Reveals Generalization Strategies
32. ICLR 2023Linearly Mapping from Image to Text Space
33. ICLR 2023Text Summarization with Oracle Expectation
34. ICLR 2023TextGrad: Advancing Robustness Evaluation in NLP by Gradient-Driven Optimization
35. ICLR 2023WikiWhy: Answering and Explaining Cause-and-Effect Questions

FAQ

How many Clinical NLP papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

103 in total: 15 in 2023, 22 in 2024, 18 in 2025, 48 in 2026.

How many Clinical NLP papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 24 Clinical NLP papers, versus 9 the year before.

How many Clinical NLP papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 12 Clinical NLP papers, versus 7 the year before.

How many Clinical NLP papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 10 Clinical NLP papers, versus 2 the year before.

How many Clinical NLP papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 2 Clinical NLP papers.

Which conference publishes the most Clinical NLP papers?

NeurIPS, with 48 papers from 2023 to 2026.