LLMs-based Augmentation for Domain Adaptation in Long-tailed Food Datasets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16037v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:38:56 GMT
• Title: LLMs-based Augmentation for Domain Adaptation in Long-tailed Food Datasets
• Authors: Qing Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Ee-Peng Lim, Qianru Sun,
• Abstract summary: We present a framework empowered with large language models (LLMs) to address these challenges in food recognition.<n>We first leverage LLMs to parse food images to generate food titles and ingredients.<n>Then, we project the generated texts and food images from different domains to a shared embedding space to maximize the pair similarities.
• Score: 54.527878056610156
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Training a model for food recognition is challenging because the training samples, which are typically crawled from the Internet, are visually different from the pictures captured by users in the free-living environment. In addition to this domain-shift problem, the real-world food datasets tend to be long-tailed distributed and some dishes of different categories exhibit subtle variations that are difficult to distinguish visually. In this paper, we present a framework empowered with large language models (LLMs) to address these challenges in food recognition. We first leverage LLMs to parse food images to generate food titles and ingredients. Then, we project the generated texts and food images from different domains to a shared embedding space to maximize the pair similarities. Finally, we take the aligned features of both modalities for recognition. With this simple framework, we show that our proposed approach can outperform the existing approaches tailored for long-tailed data distribution, domain adaptation, and fine-grained classification, respectively, on two food datasets.

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