Preprint
Aug 2026
OliveGemma: A 3 Billion Visual Language Model for Recognising the Mediterranean&European Diet
The results demonstrate that PEFT adaptation of a small VLM can surpass substantially larger proprietary models on specialised food recognition, being second best across CNNs and frontier models, surpassed only by DenseNet-121.
Dimitrios I. Zaridis, Traianos Tsiokris, V. Pezoulas et al.
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