"RoPE extrapolates to longer contexts" — someone finally measured it, and it doesn't
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You've read this sentence, or something close to it: RoPE handles longer sequences than absolute positional encoding because rotations are periodic. I believed it too. Then I went looking for where it was measured, and found the opposite. The claim has a four-paper history, and following it in orde…
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- 2026-09-10 04:00 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
"RoPE extrapolates to longer contexts" — someone finally measured it, and it doesn't