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RoPE coefficients

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Position-dependent rotations supplied by the block.

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Contextual evidence from Generate RoPE coefficients

Rotary coefficients: the YaRN correction range in rotary pairs, the linear ramp between base and interpolated frequencies, and cos/sin tables scaled by the ratio of the two YaRN corrections.

rope · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 226–327

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def yarn_find_correction_dim(
    num_rotations, dim, base=10000, max_position_embeddings=2048
):
    return (dim * math.log(max_position_embeddings / (num_rotations * 2 * math.pi))) / (
        2 * math.log(base)
    )


# Find dim range bounds based on rotations
def yarn_find_correction_range(
    low_rot, high_rot, dim, base=10000, max_position_embeddings=2048
):
    low = math.floor(
        yarn_find_correction_dim(low_rot, dim, base, max_position_embeddings)
    )
    high = math.ceil(
        yarn_find_correction_dim(high_rot, dim, base, max_position_embeddings)
    )
    return max(low, 0), min(high, dim - 1)  # Clamp values just in case


def yarn_get_mscale(scale=1, mscale=1):
    if scale <= 1:
        return 1.0
    return 0.1 * mscale * math.log(scale) + 1.0


def yarn_linear_ramp_mask(min, max, dim):
    if min == max:
        max += 0.001  # Prevent singularity

    linear_func = (torch.arange(dim, dtype=torch.float32) - min) / (max - min)
    ramp_func = torch.clamp(linear_func, 0, 1)
    return ramp_func

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    def _set_cos_sin_cache(self, seq_len, device, dtype):
        self.max_seq_len_cached = seq_len
        dim = self.dim

        freq_extra = 1.0 / (
            self.base
            ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32, device=device) / dim)
        )
        freq_inter = 1.0 / (
            self.scaling_factor
            * self.base
            ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32, device=device) / dim)
        )

        low, high = yarn_find_correction_range(
            self.beta_fast,
            self.beta_slow,
            dim,
            self.base,
            self.original_max_position_embeddings,
        )
        inv_freq_mask = 1.0 - yarn_linear_ramp_mask(low, high, dim // 2).to(
            device=device, dtype=torch.float32
        )
        inv_freq = freq_inter * (1 - inv_freq_mask) + freq_extra * inv_freq_mask
        self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False)

        t = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)

        freqs = torch.outer(t, inv_freq)

        _mscale = float(
            yarn_get_mscale(self.scaling_factor, self.mscale)
            / yarn_get_mscale(self.scaling_factor, self.mscale_all_dim)
        )

        emb = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1)
        self.register_buffer(
            "cos_cached", (emb.cos() * _mscale).to(dtype), persistent=False
        )
        self.register_buffer(
            "sin_cached", (emb.sin() * _mscale).to(dtype), persistent=False
        )

Contextual evidence from Generate RoPE coefficients

YaRN RoPE as the implementation builds it: the YaRN class and its defaults, the softmax scale (1/√192 times the square of the YaRN attention correction for mscale_all_dim), and the choice of YaRN whenever the configuration’s rope_scaling type is yarn.

model-args · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 262–742

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class DeepseekV3YarnRotaryEmbedding(DeepseekV3RotaryEmbedding):

    def __init__(
        self,
        dim,
        max_position_embeddings=2048,
        base=10000,
        device=None,
        scaling_factor=1.0,
        original_max_position_embeddings=4096,
        beta_fast=32,
        beta_slow=1,
        mscale=1,
        mscale_all_dim=0,
    ):
        self.scaling_factor = scaling_factor
        self.original_max_position_embeddings = original_max_position_embeddings
        self.beta_fast = beta_fast
        self.beta_slow = beta_slow
        self.mscale = mscale
        self.mscale_all_dim = mscale_all_dim
        super().__init__(dim, max_position_embeddings, base, device)

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        self.softmax_scale = self.q_head_dim ** (-0.5)
        if self.config.rope_scaling is not None:
            mscale_all_dim = self.config.rope_scaling.get("mscale_all_dim", 0)
            scaling_factor = self.config.rope_scaling["factor"]
            if mscale_all_dim:
                mscale = yarn_get_mscale(scaling_factor, mscale_all_dim)
                self.softmax_scale = self.softmax_scale * mscale * mscale

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    def _init_rope(self):
        if self.config.rope_scaling is None:
            self.rotary_emb = DeepseekV3RotaryEmbedding(
                self.qk_rope_head_dim,
                max_position_embeddings=self.max_position_embeddings,
                base=self.rope_theta,
            )
        else:
            scaling_type = self.config.rope_scaling["type"]
            scaling_factor = self.config.rope_scaling["factor"]
            if scaling_type == "linear":
                self.rotary_emb = DeepseekV3LinearScalingRotaryEmbedding(
                    self.qk_rope_head_dim,
                    max_position_embeddings=self.max_position_embeddings,
                    scaling_factor=scaling_factor,
                    base=self.rope_theta,
                )
            elif scaling_type == "dynamic":
                self.rotary_emb = DeepseekV3DynamicNTKScalingRotaryEmbedding(
                    self.qk_rope_head_dim,
                    max_position_embeddings=self.max_position_embeddings,
                    scaling_factor=scaling_factor,
                    base=self.rope_theta,
                )
            elif scaling_type == "yarn":
                kwargs = {
                    key: self.config.rope_scaling[key]
                    for key in [
                        "original_max_position_embeddings",
                        "beta_fast",
                        "beta_slow",
                        "mscale",
                        "mscale_all_dim",
                    ]
                    if key in self.config.rope_scaling
                }
                self.rotary_emb = DeepseekV3YarnRotaryEmbedding(
                    self.qk_rope_head_dim,
                    max_position_embeddings=self.max_position_embeddings,
                    scaling_factor=scaling_factor,
                    base=self.rope_theta,
                    **kwargs,
                )
            else:
                raise ValueError(f"Unknown RoPE scaling type {scaling_type}")

Contextual evidence from Rotate query part

Rotary embedding rotates consecutive feature pairs: the implementation regroups each pair before applying rotate_half, which multiplies pair (2j, 2j+1) by position’s angle for frequency j.

apply-rope · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct / modeling_deepseek.py
Pinned revision fd1984e2b7a3 ↗ · lines 339–371

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def apply_rotary_pos_emb(q, k, cos, sin, position_ids, unsqueeze_dim=1):
    """Applies Rotary Position Embedding to the query and key tensors.

    Args:
        q (`torch.Tensor`): The query tensor.
        k (`torch.Tensor`): The key tensor.
        cos (`torch.Tensor`): The cosine part of the rotary embedding.
        sin (`torch.Tensor`): The sine part of the rotary embedding.
        position_ids (`torch.Tensor`):
            The position indices of the tokens corresponding to the query and key tensors. For example, this can be
            used to pass offsetted position ids when working with a KV-cache.
        unsqueeze_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 1):
            The 'unsqueeze_dim' argument specifies the dimension along which to unsqueeze cos[position_ids] and
            sin[position_ids] so that they can be properly broadcasted to the dimensions of q and k. For example, note
            that cos[position_ids] and sin[position_ids] have the shape [batch_size, seq_len, head_dim]. Then, if q and
            k have the shape [batch_size, heads, seq_len, head_dim], then setting unsqueeze_dim=1 makes
            cos[position_ids] and sin[position_ids] broadcastable to the shapes of q and k. Similarly, if q and k have
            the shape [batch_size, seq_len, heads, head_dim], then set unsqueeze_dim=2.
    Returns:
        `tuple(torch.Tensor)` comprising of the query and key tensors rotated using the Rotary Position Embedding.
    """
    cos = cos[position_ids].unsqueeze(unsqueeze_dim)
    sin = sin[position_ids].unsqueeze(unsqueeze_dim)

    b, h, s, d = q.shape
    q = q.view(b, h, s, d // 2, 2).transpose(4, 3).reshape(b, h, s, d)

    b, h, s, d = k.shape
    k = k.view(b, h, s, d // 2, 2).transpose(4, 3).reshape(b, h, s, d)

    q_embed = (q * cos) + (rotate_half(q) * sin)
    k_embed = (k * cos) + (rotate_half(k) * sin)
    return q_embed, k_embed