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

22 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2024Branch-GAN: Improving Text Generation with (not so) Large Language Models
2. ICLR 2024Closing the Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration
3. ICLR 2024Diagnosing Transformers: Illuminating Feature Spaces for Clinical Decision-Making
4. ICLR 2024Faithful Explanations of Black-box NLP Models Using LLM-generated Counterfactuals
5. ICLR 2024SEA: Sparse Linear Attention with Estimated Attention Mask
6. ICLR 2024What's In My Big Data?
7. ICLR 2024Yet Another ICU Benchmark: A Flexible Multi-Center Framework for Clinical ML
8. ICLR 2024Zoology: Measuring and Improving Recall in Efficient Language Models
9. ICML 2024Contrastive Learning for Clinical Outcome Prediction with Partial Data Sources
10. ICML 2024Faithfulness Measurable Masked Language Models
11. ICML 2024Safe Exploration in Dose Finding Clinical Trials with Heterogeneous Participants
12. ICML 2024Zero-Shot ECG Classification with Multimodal Learning and Test-time Clinical Knowledge Enhancement
13. NeurIPS 2024A teacher-teacher framework for clinical language representation learning
14. NeurIPS 2024DiReCT: Diagnostic Reasoning for Clinical Notes via Large Language Models
15. NeurIPS 2024EHRNoteQA: An LLM Benchmark for Real-World Clinical Practice Using Discharge Summaries
16. NeurIPS 2024FinBen: A Holistic Financial Benchmark for Large Language Models
17. NeurIPS 2024Instruction Tuning Large Language Models to Understand Electronic Health Records
18. NeurIPS 2024Instruction Tuning With Loss Over Instructions
19. NeurIPS 2024MedJourney: Benchmark and Evaluation of Large Language Models over Patient Clinical Journey
20. NeurIPS 2024Newswire: A Large-Scale Structured Database of a Century of Historical News
21. NeurIPS 2024Speaking Your Language: Spatial Relationships in Interpretable Emergent Communication
22. NeurIPS 2024The Scandinavian Embedding Benchmarks: Comprehensive Assessment of Multilingual and Monolingual Text Embedding

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.