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How do RoPE scaling methods (position interpolation, NTK, YaRN) extend a model's context window?

A model trained at 4K tokens can be stretched to 128K without full retraining. The signal is knowing why naive extrapolation fails and how PI, NTK-aware scaling, and YaRN each rescale RoPE frequencies differently.

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A model trained at 4K tokens can be stretched to 128K without full retraining. The signal is knowing why naive extrapolation fails and how PI, NTK-aware scaling, and YaRN each rescale RoPE frequencies differently.

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