← All parts of this equation

Equation 9 · Part 1 · How Llama's Architecture Actually Works, Generation by Generation

Symbol m

mm
mm

What this part means

a position index.

Its job in the formula

m is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Where the article explains it

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:

The passage around this formula

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:

Read this part in the article →

Learn the underlying idea

A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.

Open the illustrated variables: a letter stands for a value guide →

See this notation across published equations →

Sources cited in the article section

These citations provide research context; check each source for the exact claim it supports.