The RoPE Decay Curve Everyone Plots Is Noise, and Taking the Absolute Value Does Not Fix It
Rotary position embeddings do something that sounds impossible. They inject each token's absolute position into the query and key — and the attention score between any two tokens depends only on the distance between them. Move a whole sentence ten tokens later and every score inside it is unchanged…
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- 2026-10-12 11:20 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
The RoPE Decay Curve Everyone Plots Is Noise, and Taking the Absolute Value Does Not Fix It