2025/02/08 by Seo Jun Pyo, Pyo, Seo Jun
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Fermentation and Sensory Analysis #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.06871
openalex publication_date 2025/02/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The study of food pairing has evolved beyond subjective expertise with the advent of machine learning. This paper presents FlavorDiffusion, a novel framework leveraging diffusion models to predict food-chemical interactions and ingredient pairings without relying on chromatography. By integrating graph-based embeddings, diffusion processes, and chemical property encoding, FlavorDiffusion addresses data imbalances and enhances clustering quality. Using a heterogeneous graph derived from datasets like Recipe1M and FlavorDB, our model demonstrates superior performance in reconstructing ingredient-ingredient relationships. The addition of a Chemical Structure Prediction (CSP) layer further refines the embedding space, achieving state-of-the-art NMI scores and enabling meaningful discovery of novel ingredient combinations. The proposed framework represents a significant step forward in computational gastronomy, offering scalable, interpretable, and chemically informed solutions for food science.