The SLAM Confidence Trap

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15884v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:37:24 GMT
• Title: The SLAM Confidence Trap
• Abstract summary: The SLAM community has fallen into a "Confidence Trap" by prioritizing benchmark scores over principled uncertainty estimation.<n>This yields systems that are geometrically accurate but probabilitistically inconsistent and brittle.<n>We advocate for a paradigm shift where the consistent, real-time computation of uncertainty becomes a primary metric of success.
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• Abstract: The SLAM community has fallen into a "Confidence Trap" by prioritizing benchmark scores over principled uncertainty estimation. This yields systems that are geometrically accurate but probabilitistically inconsistent and brittle. We advocate for a paradigm shift where the consistent, real-time computation of uncertainty becomes a primary metric of success.

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