arXiv:2606. 12699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) poses an increasing global health threat, demanding effective glycemic assessment to support personalized and improved diabetes care.
By Yifan Gao, Yanmin Gong, Yun Shi, Yuanxiong Guo
arXiv:2608. 13581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized glucose regulation remains a central yet unresolved challenge in precision nutrition, as postprandial glucose response varies substantially across individuals.
By Mingyu Huang, Weiqing Min, Ying Jin, Yilin Wang, Shuqiang Jiang
arXiv:2609.08772v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being investigated for physiological time-series prediction, yet their effectiveness may depend not only...
By Andrea Apicella, Pasquale Arpaia, Matteo Orefice, Andrea Pollastro, Roberto Prevete
The paper investigates how well large language models (LLMs) can assess whether recipes are suitable for people with diabetes. It introduces a benchmark of 7,607 recipes, split evenly between suitable and unsuitable, and tests three prompting strategies that vary in how much diabetes dietary guidance they provide. Results show that LLMs tend to be cautious in labeling recipes as suitable, and those that can reason with dietary guidelines—particularly Mistral‑7B and Llama‑70B—perform best.
By Revathy Venkataramanan, Aditya Luthra, Venkatesan Nadimuthu, Amit Sheth
The study evaluates time‑series foundation models for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) forecasting across eight public datasets covering Type 1, Type 2, and non‑diabetes populations. Zero‑shot foundation models did not consistently beat strong task‑specific baselines, but lightweight fine‑tuning of models like Chronos‑Bolt improved root‑mean‑square error by up to 18% in both in‑distribution and out‑of‑distribution settings. Incorporating multimodal dietary context via CGMacros and a residual‑based fusion framework further reduced overall RMSE by ~3% and postprandial RMSE by ~15%, indicating that dietary signals add clinically meaningful value beyond CGM alone.
By Bowen Zhang, Hsiu-Wen Cheng, Hongyu Yang, Evie L. Shen, Joleen Vansomphone, Yuna Li, Kerry Zhou, Zitian Qu, Suning Zhao, Xiangning Deng, Hua Zhou, Jin J. Zhou
The paper examines how large language models (LLMs) can assess whether recipes are suitable for people with diabetes. It introduces a benchmark of 7,607 recipes, split evenly between suitable and unsuitable, and tests three prompting strategies that embed varying levels of diabetes dietary guidelines. Results show that LLMs tend to be cautious in labeling recipes as suitable, and those that can reason with the guidelines—particularly Mistral‑7B and Llama‑70B—perform best.
arXiv:2607. 08423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid integration of Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into critical infrastructure promises to revolutionize personalized healthcare and dietary management.
By Qian Jiang, Zhecheng Shi, Jingpu Yang, Zirui Song, Miao Fang
The paper examines how the representation of physiological data affects the performance of large language models (LLMs) in predicting post‑meal blood glucose events for people with type 1 diabetes. Using the OhioT1DM dataset, the authors compare zero‑shot and few‑shot prompt‑based LLMs across 30, 60, and 90‑minute horizons, varying the textual encoding of glucose readings, derived descriptors, and contextual variables such as insulin, meals, carbs, and activity. Results show that while conventional supervised models excel at hyperglycemia prediction, certain prompt‑based LLM configurations outperform them for hypoglycemia, and that the way data is presented to the model is a key determinant of success, with added context not consistently improving outcomes.
arXiv:2606. 23603v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unhealthy dietary behavior continues to be a persistent public health issue in the United States, exacerbated by recommendation systems that prioritize user preference without considering nutritional health.
By Aarya Vasantlal, Joshua Zolla, Chuxu Zhang
arXiv:2606. 08948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive estimation of dietary micronutrients from food images could improve clinical nutrition care, but training such models requires large multimodal datasets linking diverse foods to complete nutrient profiles.
By Runze Yan, Minxiao Wang, Jiaying Lu, Darren Liu, Xiao Hu, Hanqi Luo
arXiv:2601. 14590v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) provide human-centric interpretability by identifying the minimal, actionable changes required to alter a machine learning model's prediction.
By Shovito Barua Soumma, Asiful Arefeen, Stephanie M. Carpenter, Melanie Hingle, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
The study introduces a multimodal framework that predicts postprandial glycemic response (PPGR) by combining image-derived macronutrient estimates with clinical variables and gut microbiome data. It jointly performs macronutrient estimation from meal images and glucose prediction, using an attention-based module to model interactions between dietary and host-specific information. Evaluated on a real-world dataset, the model outperforms existing PPGR baselines that use image-derived inputs and nearly matches methods relying on manually reported macronutrients.
By Varvara Kondratyeva, Kamilia Zaripova, Nassir Navab, Azade Farshad