arXiv AI

MetaPlate: Counterfactual-Guided RAG-LLM Tool for Personalized Food Recommendation and Hyperglycemia Prevention

arXiv:2606. 10120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Postprandial hyperglycemia is a key risk factor for metabolic disorders; however, existing dietary guidance is often static, impractical, and insufficiently personalized, providing recommendations that are difficult to follow or not impactful.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Analyze Recipes for Diabetes

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Evaluating Time-Series Foundation Models and Multimodal Dietary Context for CGM Forecasting

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Analyze Recipes for Diabetes

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

It's All in the Way You Say It: The Role of Information Representation in LLM-Based Glycemic-Event Prediction

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 AI
Jun 9

NutriMLLM: Multimodal Large Language Models for Dietary Micronutrient Analysis

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 Machine Learning
Jul 9

Counterfactual Modeling with Fine-Tuned LLMs for Health Intervention Design and Sensor Data Augmentation

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
arXiv AI
Sep 23

Predicting Postprandial Glycemic Response from Meal Images, Clinical Variables, and Gut Microbiome Information

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