Jhony Fernando López Torres

Internal Consistency Does Not Validate an LLM-Assisted Nutrition Pipeline: A Reference-Standard-Free Forensic Reliability Audit of 13,073 Free-Text Meal Records

Background/Objectives: Large language model (LLM) pipelines increasingly convert free-text meal descriptions into nutrient values, yet reference-standard validation is rarely feasible in production. We asked whether the controls such pipelines conventionally pass suffice and built a reference-standard-free battery any...