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Long-term VPR is challenging even with descriptors extracted exclusively for the discrimination of position, especially when there is a significant change in illumination conditions, seasons, viewpoints, occlusions, traffic, and\/or changes in structures. Additionally, temporal adaptation is typically done after the learning of the descriptors, and adaptation goals do not directly impact the descriptor space, which can act as a conflict with existing place representations. In order to overcome this limitation, the MT-FusionNet descriptor backbone is jointly optimized with the Cross-Temporal Meta-Reweighting Recurrent Encoder (CT-MRRE) and a representation-preserving process with replay. The two steps of CT-MRRE are: residual cross-temporal alignment to correct the descriptors dislocated by the condition and suppressing unreliable descriptors in the context of the current environmental condition through recurrent reliability reweighting. 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