Higher-Dimensional Rotary Position Embedding
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arXiv:2608.29715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers rely on position embedding mechanisms in long context modeling in most cases. Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) embeds positional information with independent 2D rotations, forming relative position terms in self-attention. However, its pairwise, block-based, and decoupled structure limits deep mixing and robustness across channels. We propose HD-RoPE, which extends RoPE from independent 2D rotations to higher-dimensional rotations and introduces a Paley-I orthogonal basis to obtain balanced, isotropic, and dense phase mixing within
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.29715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers rely on position embedding mechanisms in long context modeling in most cases.
- Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) embeds positional information with independent 2D rotations, forming relative position terms in self-attention.
- However, its pairwise, block-based, and decoupled structure limits deep mixing and robustness across channels.
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