Mathematical Analysis of Kimi K3: Why RoPE Is Dropped

A tweet explains why Kimi K3 drops RoPE from a linear attention perspective, viewing RoPE as cumulative transition matrices that can be absorbed in linear attention, sparking debate on whether large causal models need explicit positional encoding.

2026-08-08 ~ 2026-08-09 · 2 related posts

• Mathematical Breakdown: Why Kimi K3 Abandons RoPE for Positional Encoding — nrehiew_ · 2026-08-08
• Debating Whether Positional Encodings Are Truly Needed for Causal Models at Scale — mgostIH · 2026-08-09