---
title: Epicure Explorer
emoji: "🌶"
colorFrom: green
colorTo: red
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.7.1
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: cc-by-4.0
short_description: Operators behind the FlavourBench culinary benchmark
models:
  - Kaikaku/epicure-cooc
  - Kaikaku/epicure-core
  - Kaikaku/epicure-chem
datasets:
  - Kaikaku/epicure-corpus-resources
---

# Epicure Explorer

> **Epicure powers [FlavourBench](https://github.com/josefchen/flavourbench), the executable
> culinary reasoning benchmark for frontier language models.** The benchmark turns versioned
> Epicure operations into answer keys, evaluates 20 current endpoints on 32 tasks, and measures the
> same model-task pairs with and without Epicure. [Read the paper](https://github.com/josefchen/flavourbench/blob/main/paper/build/flavourbench.pdf)
> or [reproduce the leaderboard](https://github.com/josefchen/flavourbench#reproduce-the-result).

Interactive chef-facing demo of the three Epicure sibling ingredient embeddings (Cooc, Core, Chem). Three operator tabs:

1. **Pairings**: top-K cosine neighbours plus the closest emergent mode for any of 1,790 ingredients.
2. **Supervised SLERP**: rotate a seed toward a supervised direction (cuisine macro-region, food group, NOVA level, sensory category, USDA macro) by a continuous angle.
3. **Emergent SLERP**: rotate a seed toward an unsupervised factor-mode pole discovered via multi-seed-stable FastICA + GMM.

Paper: [Epicure: Navigating the Emergent Geometry of Food Ingredient Embeddings](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391).

## Try

- Pairings, `chicken`, Cooc -> garlic, onion, black_pepper, turkey, carrot (recipe companions).
- Pairings, `chicken`, Chem -> beef, pork, cream_of_chicken_soup, buffalo_wing_sauce, peanut (chemistry peers).
- Supervised SLERP, `rice` + `cuisine:South_Asian`, 30 deg, Core -> turmeric, mustard_seed, fenugreek_seed, coriander, cumin.
- Supervised SLERP, `corn` + `cuisine:Latin_American`, 30 deg, Chem -> poblano_pepper, corn_tortilla, salsa, queso_fresco, chipotle_pepper.

Citation: Radzikowski and Chen, 2026.