Equation 10 · How Llama's Architecture Actually Works, Generation by Generation
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a position index. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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The property that makes this useful rather than merely elegant is that rotating a query at position m and a key at position n by these matrices before taking their dot product leaves a result that depends only on the distance between them:
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