Weslyn Cory Whitehead

Yare 3-6-9 Rotary Positional Encoding: A Digital-Root Frequency Schedule for RoPE

2026 · Open MIND

Rotary Positional Encoding (RoPE; Su et al. 2021) uses a geometric frequency progression theta_i = 10000^(-2i/d) that, while effective, has no principled structure governing its period or extrapolation behavior. We propose Yare 3-6-9 RoPE, two …