Clinical NLP papers, 2023–2026
EHR and clinical text
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 103 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
| 2025 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| 2026 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 48 |
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
18 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026A Machine-Learned Comorbidity Index
- ICML 2026Attention Hijacking: Backdooring Text Dataset Distillation via Semantic Anchors
- ICML 2026Expert-guided Clinical Text Augmentation via Query-Based Model Collaboration
- ICML 2026From Token to Token Pair: Efficient Prompt Compression for Large Language Models in Clinical Prediction
- ICML 2026How Should Transformers Encode Numeric Values in Electronic Health Records?
- ICML 2026NBCG: Nash-Bargained Causal Game for Long-Tailed Multi-Label NLP
- ICML 2026PyHealth 2.0: A Comprehensive Open-Source Toolkit for Accessible and Reproducible Clinical Deep Learning
- ICML 2026Separating Representation from Reconstruction Enables Scalable Text Encoders
- ICML 2026STT-LLM: Structural-Temporal Tokenization for Adapting LLMs to Longitudinal Clinical Profiles
- ICML 2026TwinWeaver: An LLM-Based Foundation Model Framework for Pan-Cancer Digital Twins
- ICML 2025Doubly Protected Estimation for Survival Outcomes Utilizing External Controls for Randomized Clinical Trials
- ICML 2025EEG-Language Pretraining for Highly Label-Efficient Clinical Phenotyping
- ICML 2024Contrastive Learning for Clinical Outcome Prediction with Partial Data Sources
- ICML 2024Faithfulness Measurable Masked Language Models
- ICML 2024Safe Exploration in Dose Finding Clinical Trials with Heterogeneous Participants
- ICML 2024Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement
- ICML 2023Prefer to Classify: Improving Text Classifiers via Auxiliary Preference Learning
- ICML 2023Sequential Multi-Dimensional Self-Supervised Learning for Clinical Time Series
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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.