Equation for Matching Periods in RoPE Base Scaling
To determine the scaling factor for RoPE base scaling, the period of the last dimension (lowest frequency) in the new model (with scaled base ) is set equal to the period of the linear positional interpolation model. This constraint is expressed by the following equation: where is the new sequence length, is the original length, and is the embedding dimensionality.

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Period Matching Equation for RoPE Base Scaling
Equation for Matching Periods in RoPE Base Scaling
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Equation for Matching Periods in RoPE Base Scaling
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Solution for RoPE Base Scaling Factor (λ)
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