<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Positional-Encoding on Chi's Blog</title><link>https://zhangchitc.github.io/tags/positional-encoding/</link><description>Recent content in Positional-Encoding on Chi's Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://zhangchitc.github.io/tags/positional-encoding/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding</title><link>https://zhangchitc.github.io/posts/positional-encoding/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://zhangchitc.github.io/posts/positional-encoding/</guid><description>Attention can&amp;rsquo;t tell &amp;ldquo;dog bites man&amp;rdquo; from &amp;ldquo;man bites dog&amp;rdquo;. We try integer, fractional and binary encodings, see where each one breaks, and arrive at sines and cosines: a set of clock hands spinning at different speeds.</description></item></channel></rss>