Implement Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) applied to query and key vectors.
RoPE is why modern LLMs extrapolate to longer contexts, and it works by rotation, not addition. Coding it shows you truly understand how position enters attention. Here is the implementation.
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RoPE is why modern LLMs extrapolate to longer contexts, and it works by rotation, not addition. Coding it shows you truly understand how position enters attention. Here is the implementation.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
