Learning from Mistakes: Loss-Aware Memory Enhanced Continual Learning for LiDAR Place Recognition
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| author | Wang, Xufei Zhao, Junqiao Tao, Siyue Gu, Qiwen Kim, Wonbong Feng, Tiantian |
| author_facet | Wang, Xufei Zhao, Junqiao Tao, Siyue Gu, Qiwen Kim, Wonbong Feng, Tiantian |
| contents | LiDAR place recognition plays a crucial role in SLAM, robot navigation, and autonomous driving. However, existing LiDAR place recognition methods often struggle to adapt to new environments without forgetting previously learned knowledge, a challenge widely known as catastrophic forgetting. To address this issue, we propose KDF+, a novel continual learning framework for LiDAR place recognition that extends the KDF paradigm with a loss-aware sampling strategy and a rehearsal enhancement mechanism. The proposed sampling strategy estimates the learning difficulty of each sample via its loss value and selects samples for replay according to their estimated difficulty. Harder samples, which tend to encode more discriminative information, are sampled with higher probability while maintaining distributional coverage across the dataset. In addition, the rehearsal enhancement mechanism encourages memory samples to be further refined during new-task training by slightly reducing their loss relative to previous tasks, thereby reinforcing long-term knowledge retention. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that KDF+ consistently outperforms existing continual learning methods and can be seamlessly integrated into state-of-the-art continual learning for LiDAR place recognition frameworks to yield significant and stable performance gains. The code will be available at https://github.com/repo/KDF-plus. |
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| spellingShingle | Learning from Mistakes: Loss-Aware Memory Enhanced Continual Learning for LiDAR Place Recognition Wang, Xufei Zhao, Junqiao Tao, Siyue Gu, Qiwen Kim, Wonbong Feng, Tiantian Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition LiDAR place recognition plays a crucial role in SLAM, robot navigation, and autonomous driving. However, existing LiDAR place recognition methods often struggle to adapt to new environments without forgetting previously learned knowledge, a challenge widely known as catastrophic forgetting. To address this issue, we propose KDF+, a novel continual learning framework for LiDAR place recognition that extends the KDF paradigm with a loss-aware sampling strategy and a rehearsal enhancement mechanism. The proposed sampling strategy estimates the learning difficulty of each sample via its loss value and selects samples for replay according to their estimated difficulty. Harder samples, which tend to encode more discriminative information, are sampled with higher probability while maintaining distributional coverage across the dataset. In addition, the rehearsal enhancement mechanism encourages memory samples to be further refined during new-task training by slightly reducing their loss relative to previous tasks, thereby reinforcing long-term knowledge retention. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that KDF+ consistently outperforms existing continual learning methods and can be seamlessly integrated into state-of-the-art continual learning for LiDAR place recognition frameworks to yield significant and stable performance gains. The code will be available at https://github.com/repo/KDF-plus. |
| title | Learning from Mistakes: Loss-Aware Memory Enhanced Continual Learning for LiDAR Place Recognition |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15597 |