HINT: Composed Image Retrieval With Dual-path Compositional Contextualized Network
2026 · Mingyu Zhang, Zixu Li, Zhiwei Chen, et al.
Abstract
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm. It aims to retrieve target images from large-scale image databases that are consistent with the modification semantics, based on a multimodal query composed of a reference image and modification text. Although existing methods have made significant progress in cross-modal alignment and feature fusion, a key flaw remains: the neglect of contextual information in discriminating matching samples. However, addressing this limitation is not an easy task due to two challenges: 1) implicit dependencies and 2) the lack of a differential amplification mechanism. To address these challenges, we propose a dual-patH composItional coNtextualized neTwork (HINT), which can perform contextualized encoding and amplify the similarity differences between matching and non-matching samples, thus improving the upper performance of CIR models in complex scenarios. Our HINT model achieves optimal performance on all metrics across two CI
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