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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

FoodSky: A food-oriented large language model that can pass the chef and dietetic examinations.

Pengfei Zhou, Weiqing Min, Chaoran Fu, Ying Jin, Mingyu Huang, Xiangyang Li, Shuhuan Mei, Shuqiang Jiang

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Pengfei ZhouKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Weiqing MinKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Chaoran FuInstitute of Intelligent Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China.
Ying JinKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Mingyu HuangKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xiangyang LiKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Shuhuan MeiInstitute of Intelligent Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China.
Shuqiang JiangKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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Abstract

Food is the cornerstone of both survival and social life. With the increasing complexity of global dietary cultures, there is a growing demand for food intelligence to enable tasks like recipe recommendations and diet-disease correlation discovery. To address this, we introduce the food-oriented large language model (LLM) FoodSky, which offers fine-grained perception and reasoning on food data. We constructed a food corpus, FoodEarth, from various authoritative sources to enhance FoodSky's knowledge. We also developed the topic-based selective state space model and hierarchical topic retrieval augmented generation algorithms to improve FoodSky's ability to capture fine-grained food semantics and generate context-aware food-relevant text. Extensive experiments show that FoodSky significantly outperforms general-purpose LLMs on the Chinese National Chef Examination and Dietetic Examination, achieving an accuracy of 83.3% and 91.2%, respectively. Beyond enhancing culinary creativity and promoting healthier eating patterns, FoodSky aims to establish a new benchmark for domain-specific LLMs in addressing real-world food-related challenges.

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food computinginstruction tuninglarge language modelsretrieval augmented generation

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