Optimizing VLP-aligned Multimodal Intent Representation with Correct Visual Instantiation for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
ZS-CIR aims to retrieve a target image from a reference image and a modification text without paired supervision, typically by encoding composed queries as text-dominant representations within the image-text matching space of VLPs. However, queries reconstructed by visual pseudo-word learning or MLLM-based target reaso...