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

12 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

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.