BEACON: Balancing Convenience and Nutrition in Meals With Long-Term Group Recommendations and Reasoning on Multimodal Recipes
<|reference_start|>BEACON: Balancing Convenience and Nutrition in Meals With Long-Term Group Recommendations and Reasoning on Multimodal Recipes: A common, yet regular, decision made by people, whether healthy or with any health condition, is to decide what to have in meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, consisting of a combination of foods for appetizer, main course, side dishes, desserts, and beverages. However, often this decision is seen as a trade-off between nutritious choices (e.g., low salt and sugar) or convenience (e.g., inexpensive, fast to prepare/obtain, taste better). In this preliminary work, we present a data-driven approach for the novel meal recommendation problem that can explore and balance choices for both considerations while also reasoning about a food's constituents and cooking process. Beyond the problem formulation, our contributions also include a goodness measure, a recipe conversion method from text to the recently introduced multimodal rich recipe representation (R3) format, and learning methods using contextual bandits that show promising results.<|reference_end|>
@article{nagpal2024beacon:,
    title={BEACON: Balancing Convenience and Nutrition in Meals With Long-Term
  Group Recommendations and Reasoning on Multimodal Recipes},
    author={Vansh Nagpal, Siva Likitha Valluru, Kausik Lakkaraju, Biplav
  Srivastava},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13714},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.13714},
    primaryClass={cs.AI cs.CL}
}