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Recipe1M+: A Dataset for Learning Cross-Modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images

14 Oct 2018arXiv:1810.06553archive 2025-07-28

Javier Marin, Aritro Biswas, Ferda Ofli, Nicholas Hynes, Amaia Salvador, Yusuf Aytar, Ingmar Weber, Antonio Torralba

In this paper, we introduce Recipe1M+, a new large-scale, structured corpus of over one million cooking recipes and 13 million food images. As the largest publicly available collection of recipe data, Recipe1M+ affords the ability to train high-capacity modelson aligned, multimodal data. Using these data, we train a neural network to learn a joint embedding of recipes and images that yields impressive results on an image-recipe retrieval task. Moreover, we demonstrate that regularization via the addition of a high-level classification objective both improves retrieval performance to rival that of humans and enables semantic vector arithmetic. We postulate that these embeddings will provide a basis for further exploration of the Recipe1M+ dataset and food and cooking in general. Code, data and models are publicly available.

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Cross-Modal RetrievalGeneral ClassificationRetrieval

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Cross-Modal Retrieval Recipe1M+ Marin et al. Image-to-text R@1 17 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Recipe1M+ Marin et al. Text-to-image R@1 21 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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