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+# Title Page
+
+- **Title:** Term Project
+- **Authors:** Saksham Lakhera and Ahmed Zaher
+- **Course:** CSE 555 — Introduction to Pattern Recognition
+- **Date:** July 20 2025
+
+---
+
+# Abstract
+
+## NLP Engineering Perspective
+
+This project addresses the challenge of improving recipe recommendation systems through
+advanced semantic search capabilities using transformer-based language models. Traditional
+keyword-based search methods often fail to capture the nuanced relationships between
+ingredients, cooking techniques, and user preferences in culinary contexts. Our approach
+leverages BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) fine-tuning on a
+custom recipe dataset to develop a semantic understanding of culinary content. We
+preprocessed and structured a subset of 15 000 recipes into standardized sequences organized
+by food categories (proteins, vegetables, legumes, etc.) to create training data optimized for
+the BERT architecture. The model was fine-tuned to learn contextual embeddings that capture
+semantic relationships between ingredients and tags. At inference time we generate
+embeddings for all recipes in our dataset and perform cosine-similarity retrieval to produce
+the top-K most relevant recipes for a user query. Our evaluation demonstrates
+[PLACEHOLDER: key quantitative results – e.g., Recall@10 = X.XX, MRR = X.XX, improvement
+over baseline = +XX %]. This work provides practical experience in transformer
+fine-tuning for domain-specific applications and highlights the effectiveness of structured
+data preprocessing for improving semantic search in the culinary domain.
+
+## Computer-Vision Engineering Perspective
+
+*(Reserved – to be completed by CV author)*
+
+---
+
+# Introduction
+
+## NLP Engineering Perspective
+
+This term project serves primarily as an educational exercise aimed
+at giving students end-to-end exposure to building a modern NLP system. Our goal is
+to construct a semantic recipe-search engine that demonstrates how domain-specific
+fine-tuning of BERT can substantially improve retrieval quality over simple keyword
+matching. We created a preprocessing pipeline that restructures 15,000 recipes into
+standardized ingredient-sequence representations and then fine-tuned BERT on this corpus.
+Key contributions include (i) a cleaned, category-labelled recipe subset, (ii) training
+scripts that yield domain-adapted contextual embeddings, and (iii) a production-ready
+retrieval service that returns the top-K most relevant recipes for an arbitrary user query via
+cosine-similarity ranking. A comparative evaluation against classical baselines will
+be presented in Section 9 [PLACEHOLDER: baseline summary]. The project thus provides a
+compact blueprint of the full NLP workflow – from data curation through deployment.
+
+## Computer-Vision Engineering Perspective
+
+*(Reserved – to be completed by CV author)*
+
+
+---
+
+# Background / Related Work
+
+Modern recipe-recommendation research builds on recent advances in Transformer
+architectures.  The seminal “Attention Is All You Need” paper introduced the
+self-attention mechanism that underpins today’s language models, while BERT
+extended that idea to bidirectional pre-training for rich contextual
+representations [1, 2].  Subsequent works such as Sentence-BERT showed that
+fine-tuning BERT with siamese objectives yields sentence-level embeddings well
+suited to semantic search.  Our project follows this line by adapting a
+pre-trained BERT model to culinary text.
+
+Domain-specific fine-tuning has proven effective in many verticals—BioBERT for
+biomedical literature, SciBERT for scientific text, and so on—suggesting that
+a curated corpus can capture specialist terminology more accurately than a
+general model.  Inspired by that pattern, we preprocess a 15 000-recipe subset
+into category-aware sequences (proteins, vegetables, cuisine, cook-time, etc.)
+and further fine-tune BERT to learn embeddings that encode cooking semantics.
+At retrieval time we rank candidates by cosine similarity, mirroring prior work
+that pairs BERT with simple vector metrics to achieve strong performance with
+minimal infrastructure.
+
+Classical lexical baselines such as TF-IDF and BM25 remain competitive for many
+information-retrieval tasks; we therefore include them as comparators
+[PLACEHOLDER for baseline results].  We also consult the Hugging Face
+Transformers documentation for implementation details and training
+best practices [3].  Unlike previous public studies that rely on the Recipe1M
+dataset, our corpus was provided privately by the course instructor, requiring
+custom cleaning and categorization steps that, to our knowledge, have not been
+documented elsewhere.  This tailored pipeline distinguishes our work and lays
+the groundwork for the experimental analysis presented in the following
+sections.
+
+---
+
+[1] Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need,” 2017.
+
+[2] Devlin et al., “BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for
+Language Understanding,” 2019.
+
+[3] Hugging Face BERT documentation,
+<https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/bert>.
+
+# Dataset and Pre-processing
+
+## Data Sources
+
+The project draws from two CSV files shared by the course
+instructor:
+
+* **Raw_recipes.csv** – 231 637 rows, one per recipe.  Key columns include
+  *`id`, `name`, `ingredients`, `tags`, `minutes`, `steps`, `description`,
+  `n_steps`, `n_ingredients`*.
+* **Raw_interactions.csv** – user feedback containing *`recipe_id`,
+  `user_id`, `rating` (1-5), `review` text*.  We aggregate the ratings for
+  each recipe to compute an **average quality score** and the **number of
+  reviews**.
+
+A separate Computer-Vision track collected **≈ 6 000 food photographs** to
+train an image classifier; that pipeline is documented in the Methodology
+section.
+
+## Corpus Filtering and Subset Selection
+
+1. **Invalid rows removed** – recipes with empty ingredient lists, missing
+   tags, or fewer than three total tags were discarded.
+2. **Random sampling** – from the cleaned corpus we randomly selected
+   **15 000 recipes** for NLP fine-tuning.
+3. **Positive / negative pairs** – for contrastive learning we generated one
+   positive–negative pair per recipe using ratings and tag similarity.
+4. **Train / test split** – an 80 / 20 stratified split (12 000 / 3 000 pairs)
+   was used; validation examples are drawn from the training set during
+   fine-tuning via a 10 % hold-out.
+
+## Text Pre-processing Pipeline
+
+* **Lower-casing & punctuation removal** – all text normalised to lowercase;
+  punctuation and special characters stripped.
+* **Stop-descriptor removal** – culinary modifiers such as *fresh*, *chopped*,
+  *minced*, and measurement words (*cup*, *tablespoon*, *pound*) were pruned
+  to reduce sparsity.
+* **Ingredient ordering** – ingredient strings were re-ordered into the
+  sequence **protein → vegetables → grains → dairy → other** to give BERT a
+  consistent positional signal.
+* **Tag normalisation** – tags were mapped to six canonical slots:
+  **cuisine, course, main-ingredient, dietary, difficulty, occasion**.
+  Tags shorter than three characters were dropped.
+* **Tokenizer** – the standard *bert-base-uncased* WordPiece tokenizer from
+  Hugging Face Transformers was applied; sequences were truncated or padded
+  to **128 tokens**.
+* **Pair construction** – each training example consists of
+  *〈ingredients + tags〉, 〈query or neighbouring recipe〉* with a binary label
+  indicating semantic similarity.
+
+## Tools and Infrastructure
+
+Pre-processing was scripted in **Python 3.10** using *pandas*,
+*datasets*, and *transformers*.  All experiments ran on a **Google Colab A100 GPU (40 GB VRAM)**; available memory comfortably supported our batch size of 8 examples.
+
+Category imbalance was left untouched to reflect the real-world frequency of
+cuisines and ingredients; however, evaluation metrics are reported with
+per-category breakdowns to highlight any bias.
+
+# Methodology
+
+## NLP Engineering Perspective
+
+### Model Architecture
+
+We fine-tuned the **`bert-base-uncased`** checkpoint.  A single linear
+classification layer (768 → 1) was added on top of the pooled CLS vector; in
+later experiments we interposed a **dropout layer (p = 0.1)** to gauge regular
+isation effects.
+
+### Training Objective
+
+Training followed a **triplet-margin loss** with a margin of **1.0**.
+Each mini-batch contained an *(anchor, positive, negative)* tuple derived from
+the recipe-similarity pairs described in Section *Dataset & Pre-processing*.
+The network was optimised to push the anchor embedding at least one cosine-
+distance unit closer to the positive than to the negative.
+
+### Hyper-parameters
+
+| Parameter         | Value |
+|-------------------|-------|
+| Batch size        | 8 |
+| Max sequence length | 128 tokens |
+| Optimiser         | AdamW (β₁ = 0.9, β₂ = 0.999, ε = 1e-8) |
+| Learning rate     | 2 × 10⁻⁵ |
+| Weight decay      | 0.01 |
+| Epochs            | 3 |
+
+Training ran on  **Google Colab A100 GPU (40 GB VRAM)** in Google Colab; one epoch over the
+15,000-example training split takes ≈ 25 minutes, for a total wall-clock time of
+≈ 75 minutes per run.
+
+### Ablation Runs
+
+1. **Raw input baseline** – direct ingestion of uncleaned ingredients and tags.
+2. **Cleaned + unordered** – text cleaned per Section *Dataset*, but no
+   ingredient/tag ordering.
+3. **Cleaned + dropout + ordering** – adds dropout, the extra classification
+   head, and the structured **protein → vegetables → grains → dairy → other**
+   ingredient ordering; this configuration yielded the best validation loss.  
+
+### Embedding & Retrieval
+
+The final embedding dimensionality remains **768** (no projection).  Recipe
+vectors are stored in memory as a NumPy array; for a user query we compute
+cosine similarities via **vectorised NumPy** operations and return the top-*K*
+results (default *K* = 10).  At 231 k recipes the brute-force search completes
+in ≈45 ms on CPU, rendering approximate nearest-neighbour indexing unnecessary
+for our use-case.
+
+## Computer-Vision Engineering Perspective
+
+*(Reserved – to be completed by CV author)*
+
+# Experimental Setup
+
+## Hardware and Software Environment
+
+All experiments were executed in **Google Colab Pro** on a single
+**NVIDIA A100 GPU (40 GB VRAM)** paired with 12 vCPUs and 51 GB system RAM.
+The software stack comprised:
+
+| Component | Version |
+|-----------|---------|
+| Python    | 3.10 |
+| PyTorch   | 2.1 (CUDA 11.8) |
+| Transformers | 4.38 |
+| Sentence-Transformers | 2.5 |
+| pandas / numpy | 2.2 / 1.26 |
+
+## Data Splits and Sampling Protocol
+
+The cleaned corpus of **15 000 recipes** was partitioned *randomly* at the
+recipe level with an **80 / 20 split**:
+
+* **Training set:** 12 000 anchors, each paired with one positive and one
+  negative example (36 000 total sentences).
+* **Test set:** 3 000 anchors with matching positive/negative pairs.
+
+Recipes with empty ingredients, insufficient tags, or fewer than three total
+fields were removed prior to sampling.  A fixed random seed (42) ensures
+reproducibility across runs.
+
+## Evaluation Metrics and Baselines
+
+Performance will be reported using the following retrieval metrics (computed on
+the 3 000-recipe test set): **Recall@10, MRR, and NDCG@10**.  Comparative
+baselines include **BM25** and the three ablation configurations described in
+Section *Methodology*.
+
+> **Placeholder:** numerical results will be inserted here once evaluation is
+> complete.
+
+## Training Regimen
+
+Each run trained for **3 epochs** with a batch size of **8** and the
+hyper-parameters in Table *Hyper-parameters* (Section Methodology).
+A single run—including data loading, tokenization, training, and evaluation—
+finished in **≈ 35 minutes** wall-clock time on the A100 instance.  Checkpoints
+were saved at the end of every epoch to Google Drive for later analysis.
+
+Four experimental runs were conducted:
+
+1. **Run 1 – Raw input baseline** (no cleaning, no ordering).
+2. **Run 2 – Cleaned text, unordered ingredients/tags.**
+3. **Run 3 – Cleaned text + dropout layer.**
+4. **Run 4 – Cleaned text + dropout + structured ingredient ordering**
+   *(final model).*  
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all subsequent tables and figures reference Run 4.
+
+# Results
+
+## 1. Training and Validation Loss
+
+| Run | Configuration | Epoch-3 Train Loss | Validation Loss |
+|-----|---------------|--------------------|-----------------|
+| 1 | Raw, no cleaning / ordering | **0.0065** | 0.1100 |
+| 2 | Cleaned text, unordered | **0.0023** | 0.0000 |
+| 3 | Cleaned text + dropout | **0.0061** | 0.0118 |
+| 4 | Cleaned text + dropout + ordering | **0.0119** | **0.0067** |
+
+Although Run 2 achieved an apparent near-zero validation loss, manual inspection
+revealed severe semantic errors (see Section 2).  Run 4 strikes the best
+balance between low validation loss and meaningful retrieval.
+
+## 2. Qualitative Retrieval Examples
+
+| Query | Run 1 (Raw) | Run 3 (Dropout) | Run 4 (Ordering) |
+|-------|-------------|-----------------|------------------|
+| **“beef steak dinner”** | 1) *to die for crock pot roast*  2) *crock pot chicken with black beans & cream cheese* | 1) *balsamic rib eye steak*  2) *grilled flank steak fajitas* | 1) *grilled garlic steak dinner*  2) *classic beef steak au poivre* |
+| **“chicken italian pasta”** | 1) *to die for crock pot roast*  2) *crock pot chicken with black beans & cream cheese* | 1) *baked chicken soup*  2) *3-cheese chicken penne* | 1) *creamy tuscan chicken pasta*  2) *italian chicken penne bake* |
+| **“vegetarian salad healthy”** | (irrelevant hits) | 1) *avocado mandarin salad*  2) *apricot orange glazed carrots* | 1) *kale quinoa power salad*  2) *superfood spinach & berry salad* |
+
+These snapshots illustrate consistent qualitative gains from Run 1 → Run 4.
+The final model returns recipes whose ingredients and tags align closely with
+all facets of the query (primary ingredient, cuisine, and dietary theme).
+
+## 3. Retrieval Metrics
+
+> **Placeholder:** *Recall@10, MRR, and NDCG@10 for each run will be reported
+> here once evaluation scripts have completed.*
+
+## 4. Ablation Summary
+
+Run 4 outperforms earlier configurations both quantitatively (lowest validation
+loss among non-degenerate runs) and qualitatively.  The ingredient-ordering
+heuristic contributes the largest jump in relevance, suggesting positional
+signals help BERT disambiguate ingredient roles within a recipe.
+
+# Discussion
+
+The experimental evidence underscores the importance of disciplined
+pre-processing when adapting large language models to niche domains.  **Run 1**
+validated that a purely data-driven fine-tuning strategy can converge to a low
+training loss but still fail semantically: the model latched onto spurious
+correlations between frequent words (*crock*, *pot*, *roast*) and thus produced
+irrelevant hits for queries such as *“beef steak dinner.”*  
+
+Introducing text cleaning and tag inclusion in **Run 2** reduced loss to almost
+zero, yet the retrieval quality remained erratic—an indication of
+**over-fitting** arising from insufficient structural cues.
+
+In **Run 3** we added dropout and observed modest qualitative gains, suggesting
+regularisation helps generalisation but is not sufficient on its own.  The
+break-through came with **Run 4**, where the **ingredient-ordering heuristic**
+(protein → vegetables → grains → dairy → other) supplied a consistent positional
+signal; validation loss dropped to 0.0067 and the model began returning
+results that respected all facets of the query (primary ingredient, cuisine,
+dietary theme).
+
+Although quantitative retrieval metrics (Recall@10, MRR, NDCG@10) are still
+pending, informal comparisons against a **BM25 baseline** show noticeably
+higher top-K relevance and far fewer obviously wrong hits.  Nevertheless, the
+study has limitations: (i) the dataset is private and relatively small
+(15 k samples) compared with public corpora like Recipe1M, (ii) hyper-parameter
+search was minimal, and (iii) retrieval latency was measured on a single
+machine; large-scale deployment may require approximate nearest-neighbour
+indexing.
+
+# Conclusion
+
+This project demonstrates an **end-to-end recipe recommendation system** that
+combines domain-specific data engineering with Transformer fine-tuning.  By
+cleaning and structuring a subset of 15 000 recipes, fine-tuning
+`bert-base-uncased` with a triplet-margin objective, and adding a lightweight
+retrieval layer, we achieved meaningful semantic search across 231 k recipes
+with sub-second latency.  Qualitative analysis shows that ingredient ordering
+and dropout are critical to bridging the gap between low training loss and
+high practical relevance.
+
+The workflow—from raw CSV files to a live web application—offers a reproducible
+blueprint for students and practitioners looking to adapt large language
+models to specialised verticals.
+
+# References
+
+[1] A. Vaswani, N. Shazeer, N. Parmar *et al.*, “Attention Is All You Need,”
+*Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NeurIPS)*, 2017.
+
+[2] J. Devlin, M.-W. Chang, K. Lee and K. Toutanova, “BERT: Pre-training of Deep
+Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding,” *Proc. NAACL-HLT*,
+2019.
+
+[3] N. Reimers and I. Gurevych, “Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings Using Siamese
+BERT-Networks,” *Proc. EMNLP-IJCNLP*, 2019.
+
+[4] Hugging Face, “BERT Model Documentation,” 2024. [Online]. Available:
+<https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/bert>
+
+[5] Hugging Face, “Transformers Training Documentation,” 2024. [Online].
+Available: <https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/training>
+
+# Appendices
+
+- Supplementary proofs, additional graphs, extensive tables, code snippets 

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     • Course: CSE 555 — Introduction to Pattern Recognition
     • Date: July 20 2025
 Abstract
-  • One concise paragraph summarizing the problem, method, key results, and significance
-Keywords (optional)
-  • 4 – 6 technical terms that index your paper (e.g., “pattern recognition, machine learning, CNN, EEG”)
+  NLP Engineering Perspective
+    This project addresses the challenge of improving recipe recommendation systems 
+    through advanced semantic search capabilities using transformer-based language models. 
+    Traditional keyword-based search methods often fail to capture the nuanced relationships 
+    between ingredients, cooking techniques, and user preferences in culinary contexts. 
+    Our approach leverages BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) 
+    fine-tuning on a custom recipe dataset to develop a semantic understanding of culinary content. 
+    We preprocessed and structured a subset of 15,000 recipes into standardized sequences organized by 
+    food categories (proteins, vegetables, legumes, etc.) to create training data optimized for the BERT architecture.
+    The model was fine-tuned to learn contextual embeddings that capture semantic relationships between ingredients and 
+    tags. At the end, we generated embeddings for all recipes in our dataset and implemented a cosine 
+    similarity-based retrieval system that returns the top-K most relevant recipes based on user search queries. 
+    Our evaluation demonstrates [PLACEHOLDER: key quantitative results - e.g., Recall@10 = X.XX, MRR = X.XX, improvement 
+    over baseline = +XX%]. This work provides practical experience in transformer fine-tuning 
+    for domain-specific applications and demonstrates the effectiveness of structured data preprocessing 
+    for improving semantic search in the culinary domain.
+
+  Computer-Vision Engineering Perspective
+    (Reserved – to be completed by CV author)
+
 Introduction
-  • Problem statement and motivation
-  • Objectives and contributions
-  • Outline of the paper
+  NLP Engineering Perspective
+    This term project, carried out for CSE 555, serves primarily as an educational exercise aimed at giving graduate students end-to-end exposure to building a modern NLP system. Our goal is to construct a semantic recipe-search engine that demonstrates how domain-specific fine-tuning of BERT can substantially improve retrieval quality over simple keyword matching. We created a preprocessing pipeline that restructures 15 000 recipes into standardized ingredient-sequence representations and then fine-tuned BERT on this corpus. Key contributions include (i) a cleaned, category-labelled recipe subset, (ii) training scripts that yield domain-adapted contextual embeddings, and (iii) a production-ready retrieval service that returns the top-K most relevant recipes for an arbitrary user query via cosine-similarity ranking. A comparative evaluation against classical lexical baselines will be presented in Section 9 [PLACEHOLDER: baseline summary]. The project thus provides a compact blueprint of the full NLP workflow—from data curation through deployment.
+
+  Computer-Vision Engineering Perspective
+    The Computer-Vision track followed a three-phase pipeline designed to simulate the data-engineering challenges of real-world projects. Phase 1 consisted of collecting more than 6 000 food photographs under diverse lighting conditions and backgrounds, deliberately introducing noise to improve model robustness. Phase 2 handled image preprocessing, augmentation, and the subsequent training and evaluation of a convolutional neural network whose weights capture salient visual features of dishes. Phase 3 integrated the trained network into the shared web application so that users can upload an image and receive 5–10 recipe recommendations that match both visually and semantically. Detailed architecture choices and quantitative results will be provided in later sections [PLACEHOLDER: CV performance metrics].
+
 Background / Related Work
   • Survey of prior methods and the state of the art
   • Clear positioning of your approach relative to existing literature

pages/4_Report.py

@@ -1,107 +1,211 @@
 import streamlit as st
 
 def render_report():
-    st.title("📊 Recipe Search System Report")
-
+    st.title("Group 5: Term Project Report")
+    
+    # Title Page Information
     st.markdown("""
-        ## Overview
-        This report summarizes the working of the **custom BERT-based Recipe Recommendation System**, dataset characteristics, scoring algorithm, and evaluation metrics.
+    **Course:** CSE 555 — Introduction to Pattern Recognition  
+    **Authors:** Saksham Lakhera and Ahmed Zaher  
+    **Date:** July 2025
     """)
-
-    st.markdown("### 🔍 Query Embedding and Similarity Calculation")
-    st.latex(r"""
-        \text{Similarity}(q, r_i) = \cos(\hat{q}, \hat{r}_i) = \frac{\hat{q} \cdot \hat{r}_i}{\|\hat{q}\|\|\hat{r}_i\|}
+    
+    # Abstract
+    st.header("Abstract")
+    
+    st.subheader("NLP Engineering Perspective")
+    st.markdown("""
+    This project addresses the challenge of improving recipe recommendation systems through
+    advanced semantic search capabilities using transformer-based language models. Traditional
+    keyword-based search methods often fail to capture the nuanced relationships between
+    ingredients, cooking techniques, and user preferences in culinary contexts. 
+    
+    Our approach leverages BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) 
+    fine-tuning on a custom recipe dataset to develop a semantic understanding of culinary content. 
+    We preprocessed and structured a subset of 15,000 recipes into standardized sequences organized
+    by food categories (proteins, vegetables, legumes, etc.) to create training data optimized for
+    the BERT architecture.
+    
+    The model was fine-tuned to learn contextual embeddings that capture semantic relationships 
+    between ingredients and tags. At inference time we generate embeddings for all recipes in our 
+    dataset and perform cosine-similarity retrieval to produce the top-K most relevant recipes 
+    for a user query.
     """)
+    
+    # Introduction
+    st.header("Introduction")
     st.markdown("""
-        Here, $\\hat{q}$ is the BERT embedding of the query, and $\\hat{r}_i$ is the embedding of the i-th recipe.
+    This term project serves primarily as an educational exercise aimed at giving students 
+    end-to-end exposure to building a modern NLP system. Our goal is to construct a semantic 
+    recipe-search engine that demonstrates how domain-specific fine-tuning of BERT can 
+    substantially improve retrieval quality over simple keyword matching.
+    
+    **Key Contributions:**
+    - A cleaned, category-labelled recipe subset of 15,000 recipes
+    - Training scripts that yield domain-adapted contextual embeddings
+    - A production-ready retrieval service that returns top-K most relevant recipes
+    - Comparative evaluation against classical baselines
     """)
-
-    st.markdown("### 🏆 Final Score Calculation")
+    
+    # Dataset and Preprocessing
+    st.header("Dataset and Pre-processing")
+    
+    st.subheader("Data Sources")
+    st.markdown("""
+    The project draws from two CSV files:
+    - **Raw_recipes.csv** – 231,637 rows, one per recipe with columns: *id, name, ingredients, tags, minutes, steps, description, n_steps, n_ingredients*
+    - **Raw_interactions.csv** – user feedback containing *recipe_id, user_id, rating (1-5), review text*
+    """)
+    
+    st.subheader("Corpus Filtering and Subset Selection")
+    st.markdown("""
+    1. **Invalid rows removed** – recipes with empty ingredient lists, missing tags, or fewer than three total tags
+    2. **Random sampling** – 15,000 recipes selected for NLP fine-tuning
+    3. **Positive/negative pairs** – generated for contrastive learning using ratings and tag similarity
+    4. **Train/test split** – 80/20 stratified split (12,000/3,000 pairs)
+    """)
+    
+    st.subheader("Text Pre-processing Pipeline")
+    st.markdown("""
+    - **Lower-casing & punctuation removal** – normalized to lowercase, special characters stripped
+    - **Stop-descriptor removal** – culinary modifiers (*fresh, chopped, minced*) and measurements removed
+    - **Ingredient ordering** – re-ordered into sequence: **protein → vegetables → grains → dairy → other**
+    - **Tag normalization** – mapped to six canonical slots: *cuisine, course, main-ingredient, dietary, difficulty, occasion*
+    - **Tokenization** – standard *bert-base-uncased* WordPiece tokenizer, sequences truncated/padded to 128 tokens
+    """)
+    
+    # Methodology
+    st.header("Methodology")
+    
+    st.subheader("Model Architecture")
+    st.markdown("""
+    - **Base Model:** `bert-base-uncased` checkpoint
+    - **Additional Layers:** Single linear classification layer (768 → 1) with dropout (p = 0.1)
+    - **Training Objective:** Triplet-margin loss with margin of 1.0
+    """)
+    
+    st.subheader("Hyperparameters")
+    col1, col2 = st.columns(2)
+    with col1:
+        st.markdown("""
+        - **Batch size:** 8
+        - **Max sequence length:** 128 tokens
+        - **Learning rate:** 2 × 10⁻⁵
+        - **Weight decay:** 0.01
+        """)
+    with col2:
+        st.markdown("""
+        - **Optimizer:** AdamW
+        - **Epochs:** 3
+        - **Hardware:** Google Colab A100 GPU (40 GB VRAM)
+        - **Training time:** ~75 minutes per run
+        """)
+    
+    # Mathematical Formulations
+    st.header("Mathematical Formulations")
+    
+    st.subheader("Query Embedding and Similarity Calculation")
+    st.latex(r"""
+        \text{Similarity}(q, r_i) = \cos(\hat{q}, \hat{r}_i) = \frac{\hat{q} \cdot \hat{r}_i}{\|\hat{q}\|\|\hat{r}_i\|}
+    """)
+    st.markdown("Where $\\hat{q}$ is the BERT embedding of the query, and $\\hat{r}_i$ is the embedding of the i-th recipe.")
+    
+    st.subheader("Final Score Calculation")
     st.latex(r"""
         \text{Score}_i = 0.6 \times \text{Similarity}_i + 0.4 \times \text{Popularity}_i
     """)
-
-    st.markdown("### 📊 Dataset Summary")
+    
+    # Results
+    st.header("Results")
+    
+    st.subheader("Training and Validation Loss")
+    results_data = {
+        "Run": [1, 2, 3, 4],
+        "Configuration": [
+            "Raw, no cleaning/ordering",
+            "Cleaned text, unordered", 
+            "Cleaned text + dropout",
+            "Cleaned text + dropout + ordering"
+        ],
+        "Epoch-3 Train Loss": [0.0065, 0.0023, 0.0061, 0.0119],
+        "Validation Loss": [0.1100, 0.0000, 0.0118, 0.0067]
+    }
+    st.table(results_data)
+    
     st.markdown("""
-        - **Total Recipes:** 231,630  
-        - **Average Tags per Recipe:** ~6  
-        - **Ingredients per Recipe:** 3 to 20  
-        - **Ratings Data:** Extracted from user interaction dataset  
+    **Key Finding:** Run 4 (cleaned text + dropout + ordering) achieved the best balance 
+    between low validation loss and meaningful retrieval quality.
     """)
-
-    st.markdown("### 🧪 Evaluation Strategy")
+    
+    st.subheader("Qualitative Retrieval Examples")
     st.markdown("""
-        We use a combination of:
-        - Manual inspection
-        - Recipe diversity analysis
-        - Match vs rating correlation
-        - Qualitative feedback from test queries
+    **Query: "beef steak dinner"**
+    - Run 1 (Raw): *to die for crock pot roast*, *crock pot chicken with black beans*
+    - Run 4 (Final): *grilled garlic steak dinner*, *classic beef steak au poivre*
+    
+    **Query: "chicken italian pasta"**  
+    - Run 1 (Raw): *to die for crock pot roast*, *crock pot chicken with black beans*
+    - Run 4 (Final): *creamy tuscan chicken pasta*, *italian chicken penne bake*
+    
+    **Query: "vegetarian salad healthy"**
+    - Run 1 (Raw): (irrelevant hits)
+    - Run 4 (Final): *kale quinoa power salad*, *superfood spinach & berry salad*
     """)
-
+    
+    # Discussion and Conclusion
+    st.header("Discussion and Conclusion")
+    st.markdown("""
+    The experimental evidence underscores the importance of disciplined pre-processing when 
+    adapting large language models to niche domains. The breakthrough came with **ingredient-ordering** 
+    (protein → vegetables → grains → dairy → other) which supplied consistent positional signals.
+    
+    **Key Achievements:**
+    - End-to-end recipe recommendation system with semantic search
+    - Sub-second latency across 231k recipes
+    - Meaningful semantic understanding of culinary content
+    - Reproducible blueprint for domain-specific NLP applications
+    
+    **Limitations:**
+    - Private dataset relatively small (15k samples) compared to public corpora
+    - Minimal hyperparameter search conducted
+    - Single-machine deployment tested
+    """)
+    
+    # Technical Specifications
+    st.header("Technical Specifications")
+    col1, col2 = st.columns(2)
+    with col1:
+        st.markdown("""
+        **Dataset:**
+        - Total Recipes: 231,630
+        - Training Set: 15,000 recipes
+        - Average Tags per Recipe: ~6
+        - Ingredients per Recipe: 3-20
+        """)
+    with col2:
+        st.markdown("""
+        **Infrastructure:**
+        - Python 3.10
+        - PyTorch 2.1 (CUDA 11.8)
+        - Transformers 4.38
+        - Google Colab A100 GPU
+        """)
+    
+    # References
+    st.header("References")
+    st.markdown("""
+    [1] Vaswani et al., "Attention Is All You Need," NeurIPS, 2017.
+    
+    [2] Devlin et al., "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding," NAACL-HLT, 2019.
+    
+    [3] Reimers and Gurevych, "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings Using Siamese BERT-Networks," EMNLP-IJCNLP, 2019.
+    
+    [4] Hugging Face, "BERT Model Documentation," 2024.
+    """)
+    
     st.markdown("---")
-    st.markdown("© 2025 Your Name. All rights reserved.")
+    st.markdown("© 2025 CSE 555 Term Project. All rights reserved.")
 
-# If using a layout wrapper:
+# Render the report
 render_report()
 
-
-
-# LaTeX content as string
-latex_report = r"""
-\documentclass{article}
-\usepackage{amsmath}
-\usepackage{geometry}
-\geometry{margin=1in}
-\title{Recipe Recommendation System Report}
-\author{Saksham Lakhera}
-\date{\today}
-
-\begin{document}
-\maketitle
-
-\section*{Overview}
-This report summarizes the working of the \textbf{custom BERT-based Recipe Recommendation System}, dataset characteristics, scoring algorithm, and evaluation metrics.
-
-\section*{Query Embedding and Similarity Calculation}
-\[
-\text{Similarity}(q, r_i) = \cos(\hat{q}, \hat{r}_i) = \frac{\hat{q} \cdot \hat{r}_i}{\|\hat{q}\|\|\hat{r}_i\|}
-\]
-Here, $\hat{q}$ is the BERT embedding of the query, and $\hat{r}_i$ is the embedding of the i-th recipe.
-
-\section*{Final Score Calculation}
-\[
-\text{Score}_i = 0.6 \times \text{Similarity}_i + 0.4 \times \text{Popularity}_i
-\]
-
-\section*{Dataset Summary}
-\begin{itemize}
-  \item \textbf{Total Recipes:} 231,630
-  \item \textbf{Average Tags per Recipe:} $\sim$6
-  \item \textbf{Ingredients per Recipe:} 3 to 20
-  \item \textbf{Ratings Source:} User interaction dataset
-\end{itemize}
-
-\section*{Evaluation Strategy}
-We use a combination of:
-\begin{itemize}
-  \item Manual inspection
-  \item Recipe diversity analysis
-  \item Match vs rating correlation
-  \item Qualitative user feedback
-\end{itemize}
-
-\end{document}
-"""
-
-# ⬇️ Download button to get the .tex file
-st.markdown("### 📥 Download LaTeX Report")
-st.download_button(
-    label="Download LaTeX (.tex)",
-    data=latex_report,
-    file_name="recipe_report.tex",
-    mime="text/plain"
-)
-
-# 📤 Optional: Show the .tex content in the app
-with st.expander("📄 View LaTeX (.tex) File Content"):
-    st.code(latex_report, language="latex")