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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chunyang Li , Yuanbo Yang , Jiahao Shao , Hongyu Zhou , Katja Schwarz , Yiyi Liao

Inspired by the Bloch Sphere representation, we propose a novel rotary position encoding on a three-dimensional sphere, named 3D Rotary Position Encoding (3D-RPE). 3D-RPE is an advanced version of the widely used 2D Rotary Position Encoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Xindian Ma , Wenyuan Liu , Peng Zhang , Nan Xu

Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) have become a standard for encoding sequence order in Large Language Models (LLMs) by applying rotations to query and key vectors in the complex plane. Standard implementations, however, utilize only the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiaoran Liu , Yuerong Song , Zhigeng Liu , Zengfeng Huang , Qipeng Guo , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian , Ziwei He , Xipeng Qiu

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized various regions since it was proposed, and its effectiveness largely depends on the ability to encode positional information. Traditional position encoding methods exhibit significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hao Yu , Tangyu Jiang , Shuning Jia , Shannan Yan , Shunning Liu , Haolong Qian , Guanghao Li , Shuting Dong , Huaisong Zhang , Chun Yuan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising capabilities in handling various multimodal tasks, yet they struggle in long-context scenarios, particularly in tasks involving videos, high-resolution images, or lengthy image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Junqi Ge , Ziyi Chen , Jintao Lin , Jinguo Zhu , Xihui Liu , Jifeng Dai , Xizhou Zhu

Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) is a key component of context scaling in Large Language Models (LLMs). While various methods have been proposed to adapt RoPE to longer contexts, their guiding principles generally fall into two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Haoran Li , Sucheng Ren , Alan Yuille , Feng Wang

Large language models (LLMs) experience significant performance degradation when the input exceeds the pretraining context window, primarily due to the out-of-distribution (OOD) behavior of Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE). Recent studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sikui Zhang , Guangze Gao , Ziyun Gan , Chunfeng Yuan , Zefeng Lin , Houwen Peng , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) is widely adopted in large language models (LLMs) due to its efficient encoding of relative positions with strong extrapolation capabilities. However, while its application in higher-dimensional input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Haiping Liu , Lijing Lin , Jingyuan Sun , Zhegong Shangguan , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Hongpeng Zhou

Position encoding recently has shown effective in the transformer architecture. It enables valuable supervision for dependency modeling between elements at different positions of the sequence. In this paper, we first investigate various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jianlin Su , Yu Lu , Shengfeng Pan , Ahmed Murtadha , Bo Wen , Yunfeng Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance across various image-language applications. Recently, there has been a growing interest in adapting image pre-trained MLLMs for video-related tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Mingze Gao , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Jiangtao Xie , Qingbin Liu , Bo Zhao , Xi Chen , Hui Xiong

Transformers rely on explicit positional encoding to model structure in data. While Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) excels in 1D domains, its application to image generation reveals significant limitations such as fine-grained spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jiaye Li , Baoyou Chen , Hui Li , Zilong Dong , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Extending context window sizes allows large language models (LLMs) to process longer sequences and handle more complex tasks. Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) has become the de facto standard due to its relative positional encoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Haonan Wang , Qian Liu , Chao Du , Tongyao Zhu , Cunxiao Du , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tianyu Pang

Self-attention relies on positional embeddings to encode input order. Relative Position (RelPos) embeddings are widely used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, RelPos has quadratic time complexity to input length and is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shucong Zhang , Titouan Parcollet , Rogier van Dalen , Sourav Bhattacharya

Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) has become a core component of modern Transformer architectures across language, vision, and 3D domains. However, existing implementations rely on vector-level split and merge operations that introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chen Minqi , Zhongqi Yue , Shihao Zhang , Yun Xu , Peng Wu , kaixiang Xu , Zeyi Huang , Hanwang Zhang

Applying Transformers to irregular time-series typically requires specializations to their baseline architecture, which can result in additional computational overhead and increased method complexity. We present the Rotary Masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Uros Zivanovic , Serafina Di Gioia , Andre Scaffidi , Martín de los Rios , Gabriella Contardo , Roberto Trotta

Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) is a widely adopted technique for encoding position in language models, which, while effective, causes performance breakdown when input length exceeds training length. Prior analyses assert (rightly) that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Davis Wertheimer , Aozhong Zhang , Derrick Liu , Penghang Yin , Naigang Wang

Positional Encodings (PEs) are a critical component of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the attention mechanism with important sequence-position information. One of the most popular types of encoding used today in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Federico Barbero , Alex Vitvitskyi , Christos Perivolaropoulos , Razvan Pascanu , Petar Veličković

Transformer architectures rely on position encodings to model the spatial structure of input data. Rotary Position Encoding (RoPE) is a widely used method in language models that encodes relative positions through fixed, block-diagonal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sophie Ostmeier , Brian Axelrod , Maya Varma , Michael E. Moseley , Akshay Chaudhari , Curtis Langlotz

Long-context large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements, driven by techniques like Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) (Su et al., 2023) and its extensions (Chen et al., 2023; Liu et al., 2024c; Peng et al., 2023). By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Bowen Yang , Bharat Venkitesh , Dwarak Talupuru , Hangyu Lin , David Cairuz , Phil Blunsom , Acyr Locatelli

Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) have become the standard for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their ability to encode relative positions through geometric rotation. However, we identify a significant limitation we term ''Spectral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kanishk Awadhiya