How does RoPE work?

Unlike additive positional embeddings, RoPE modifies the dot product between query and key to depend on relative position, producing well-behaved extrapolation and improved long-context performance. RoPE has become the dominant positional encoding in modern LLMs, used by Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, GPT-NeoX, and many others. The platform strengthens enterprise re