Shifting mechanisms: how positional encoding choice shapes in-context retrieval
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2609.38530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models increasingly use architectures that vary attention span and positional encoding across layers, such as applying RoPE with sliding-window attention and...
Original headline: "Shifting Mechanisms: How Positional Encoding Choice Shapes In-Context Retrieval"
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