Benchmarking calories evaluation with LLMs

Excerpt

I wanted a quick calories counter for myself, using LLMs to evaluate the calories from pictures of meals + descriptions. I needed to pick a model so I made a quick benchmark. The setup was: - Nutrition5k photos for photo + calories: https://github.com/google-research-datasets/Nutrition5k - A tool with access to calories information from USDA FoodData Central + MEXT - I evaluated models based on how many of the meals they managed to have under 20% of error - All on the same randomly picked 25 mea