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Rotary Position Embedding

Rotary Embeddings

8 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Jianlin Su et al. in RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Rotary Position Embedding, or RoPE, is a type of position embedding which encodes absolute positional information with rotation matrix and naturally incorporates explicit relative position dependency in self-attention formulation. Notably, RoPE comes with valuable properties such as flexibility of being expand to any sequence lengths, decaying inter-token dependency with increasing relative distances, and capability of equipping the linear self-attention with relative position encoding.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Language Modelling3
Position3
Code Generation2
Language Modeling2
Multi-task Language Understanding2
Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA)2
Question Answering2
Sentence Completion2
16k1
4k1
Arithmetic Reasoning1
Auto Debugging1
Common Sense Reasoning1
Coreference Resolution1
Cross-Lingual Question Answering1
Document Classification1
Drum Transcription1
Drum Transcription in Music (DTM)1
Few-Shot Learning1
GPU1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Rotary Embeddings: 2021 to 2024, peak 3 3 0 2021: 3 papers 2021 2022: 2 papers 2022 2023: 1 paper 2023 2024: 2 papers 2024
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (8 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

Position Embeddings

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