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A Novel Approach to Balance Convenience and Nutrition in Meals With Long-Term Group Recommendations and Reasoning on Multimodal Recipes and its Implementation in BEACON

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  • Haebom

Author

Vansh Nagpal, Siva Likitha Valluru, Kausik Lakkaraju, Nitin Gupta, Zach Abdulrahman, Andrew Davison, Biplav Srivastava

Outline

This paper addresses the problem of meal choices (breakfast, lunch, dinner), a crucial issue for both healthy and unhealthy individuals. Meal choices require trade-offs between nutrition (salt, sugar content, nutritional composition) and convenience (cost, accessibility, cuisine type, ingredients). This paper presents a data-driven meal recommendation solution that considers food composition and cooking process while taking into account user preferences. The solution considers customizable meal compositions and temporal scope. Key contributions include the introduction of a "goodness" metric, a method for converting text-based recipes into the recently introduced multimodal rich recipe representation (R3), a contextual bandit learning method that shows promising initial results, and the development of a BEACON system prototype based on user experience.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Providing data-driven solutions for personalized meal planning.
Presenting the possibility of meal recommendations that take both nutrition and convenience into account.
An efficient method for converting text recipes to R3 format is presented.
Suggesting the possibility of improving personalized meal recommendation performance through contextual bandit learning.
Confirming practical applicability through the BEACON system prototype.
Limitations:
Only initial results are presented, and further verification of performance and efficiency in practical applications is required.
Lack of detailed analysis of the specific performance and user experience of the BEACON system.
Further research is needed to determine generalizability across different user groups.
Lack of consideration for recipe representations other than the R3 format.
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