Positional Encodings in Transformer Models

This post is divided into five parts; they are: • Understanding Positional Encodings • Sinusoidal Positional Encodings • Learned Positional Encodings • Rotary Positional Encodings (RoPE) • Relative Positional Encodings Consider these two sentences: “The fox jumps over the dog” and “The dog jumps over the fox”.