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RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding

Authors: Su et al. Year: 2021 ArXiv/Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864

Summary

Introduced Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE), encoding absolute position using rotation matrix with excellent extrapolation properties.

Key Concepts

  • Rotary embeddings
  • Position encoding
  • Extrapolation
  • Relative position bias
  • Complex embeddings

Impact

Improved position encoding with better long-context generalization

Category

Position Embeddings