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In the rapidly evolving landscape of online recipe sharing within a globalized context, there has been a notable surge in research towards comprehending and generating food recipes. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) like…

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Diet quality is a leading determinant of chronic disease risk. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled food recommendation systems to adapt suggestions to user preferences and health goals. However, most current systems rely…

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Current Large Language Model (LLM) approaches for information extraction (IE) in the healthy food policy domain are often hindered by various factors, including misinformation, specifically hallucinations, misclassifications, and omissions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Congjing Zhang , Ruoxuan Bao , Jingyu Li , Yoav Ackerman , Shuai Huang , Yanfang Su

In the emerging field of computational gastronomy, aligning culinary practices with scientifically supported nutritional goals is increasingly important. This study explores how large language models (LLMs) can be applied to optimize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Luis Rita , Josh Southern , Ivan Laponogov , Kyle Higgins , Kirill Veselkov

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and the abundance of food data have resulted in studies to improve food understanding using LLMs. Despite several recommendation systems utilizing LLMs and Knowledge Graphs (KGs), there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Fnu Mohbat , Mohammed J Zaki

Food recommendation system has proven as an effective technology to provide guidance on dietary choices, and this is especially important for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Unlike other multimedia recommendations, such as books…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Jianing Qiu , Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Benny Lo

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a vast amount of procedural texts, but they do not directly observe real-world phenomena. In the context of cooking recipes, this poses a challenge, as intermediate states of ingredients are often…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mashiro Toyooka , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Yoko Yamakata

AI has driven significant progress in the nutrition field, especially through multimedia-based automatic dietary assessment. However, existing automatic dietary assessment systems often overlook critical non-visual factors, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in advancing scientific knowledge and addressing complex challenges. In this work, we introduce OmniScience, a specialized large reasoning model for general science,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Vignesh Prabhakar , Md Amirul Islam , Adam Atanas , Yao-Ting Wang , Joah Han , Aastha Jhunjhunwala , Rucha Apte , Robert Clark , Kang Xu , Zihan Wang , Kai Liu

Food is very essential for human life and it is fundamental to the human experience. Food-related study may support multifarious applications and services, such as guiding the human behavior, improving the human health and understanding the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Linhu Liu , Yong Rui , Ramesh Jain

Food recognition plays an important role in food choice and intake, which is essential to the health and well-being of humans. It is thus of importance to the computer vision community, and can further support many food-oriented vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weiqing Min , Zhiling Wang , Yuxin Liu , Mengjiang Luo , Liping Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for everyday tasks, including food preparation and health-related guidance. However, food safety remains a high-stakes domain where inaccurate or misleading information can cause severe…

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Logical reasoning is fundamental for humans yet presents a substantial challenge in the domain of Artificial Intelligence. Initially, researchers used Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) systems that did not scale and required…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Man Luo , Shrinidhi Kumbhar , Ming shen , Mihir Parmar , Neeraj Varshney , Pratyay Banerjee , Somak Aditya , Chitta Baral

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), growing efforts have been made on LLM-based table retrieval. However, existing studies typically focus on single-table query, and implement it by similarity matching after encoding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chaojie Sun , Bin Cao , Tiantian Li , Chenyu Hou , Ruizhe Li , Jing Fan

Accurate nutrient estimation from unstructured recipe text is an important yet challenging problem in dietary monitoring, due to ambiguous ingredient terminology and highly variable quantity expressions. We systematically evaluate models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Wei-Chun Chen , Yu-Xuan Chen , I-Fang Chung , Ying-Jia Lin

Research on food image understanding using recipe data has been a long-standing focus due to the diversity and complexity of the data. Moreover, food is inextricably linked to people's lives, making it a vital research area for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuki Imajuku , Yoko Yamakata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Large Language Models (LLMs), with their flexible generation abilities, can be powerful data sources in domains with few or no available corpora. However, problems like hallucinations and biases limit such applications. In this case study,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Simone Balloccu , Ehud Reiter , Vivek Kumar , Diego Reforgiato Recupero , Daniele Riboni

Effective query-item relevance modeling is pivotal for enhancing user experience and safeguarding user satisfaction in e-commerce search systems. Recently, benefiting from the vast inherent knowledge, Large Language Model (LLM) approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gang Zhao , Ximing Zhang , Chenji Lu , Hui Zhao , Tianshu Wu , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Automatic dietary assessment based on food images remains a challenge, requiring precise food detection, segmentation, and classification. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer new possibilities by integrating visual and textual reasoning. In…

In this paper, we introduce a new and challenging large-scale food image dataset called "ChineseFoodNet", which aims to automatically recognizing pictured Chinese dishes. Most of the existing food image datasets collected food images either…

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