Generating Personalized Recipes from Historical User Preferences

Existing approaches to recipe generation are unable to create recipes for users with culinary preferences but incomplete knowledge of ingredients in specific dishes. We propose a new task of personalized recipe generation to help these users: expanding a name and incomplete ingredient details into complete natural-text instructions aligned with the user's historical preferences. We attend on technique- and recipe-level representations of a user's previously consumed recipes, fusing these 'user-aware' representations in an attention fusion layer to control recipe text generation. Experiments on a new dataset of 180K recipes and 700K interactions show our model's ability to generate plausible and personalized recipes compared to non-personalized baselines.

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Datasets


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Food.com Recipes and Interactions

Results from the Paper


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Recipe Generation Food.com Prior Name BLEU-1 28.046 # 1
BLEU-4 3.211 # 1
BPE Perplexity 9.516 # 1
D-1 0.233 # 1
D-2 2.08 # 1
Rouge-L 24.794 # 1

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