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  • 1College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610207, China.

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CARE, a Constraint-Aware Recipe Engine, improves AI meal recommendations by integrating user intent, a food knowledge graph, and rule-based checks. It effectively meets dietary needs from unclear queries, outperforming existing methods.

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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Health
  • Intelligent Health Systems
  • Dietary Recommendation Engines

Background:

  • Growing public health awareness necessitates personalized diet planning.
  • Existing AI meal recommenders struggle with ambiguous user queries and strict nutritional constraints.
  • Lack of verifiable food composition data and poor handling of implicit dietary restrictions are key limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce CARE (Constraint-Aware Recipe Engine), an advanced AI system for meal recommendations.
  • To address the limitations of current methods in handling unclear user intentions and precise nutritional demands.
  • To develop a system that combines retrieval-augmented generation with structured knowledge and rule-based validation.

Main Methods:

  • Developed CARE v2.0, enhancing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) model (CARE v1.0).
  • Employed a compact 1.5B parameter language model, avoiding large black-box models.
  • Integrated intention polishing, knowledge graph enrichment, and rule-based checking for structured nutrition targets and dietary compliance.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a semantic recall@5 of 0.825 on 400k recipes (Recipe1M+) in a zero-shot setting, surpassing dense retrieval baselines (0.550).
  • Demonstrated high constraint satisfaction rates: 85.0% in fast mode, increasing to 98.5% with the verification module.
  • Validated performance on a new fuzzy-query benchmark (CAREBench-150).

Conclusions:

  • Structured food knowledge within a compact algorithmic framework effectively bridges unclear user intentions and specific nutritional requirements.
  • CARE v2.0 offers a robust and safe solution for personalized AI-driven meal recommendations.
  • The system's performance highlights the efficacy of combining language models with knowledge graphs and rule-based validation for intelligent health applications.