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A positional kernel is the similarity function induced by positional encoding in attention mechanisms; in single-head attention, the positional kernel typically appears as a scalar function k(i,j), depending only on the offset i-j for relative positional encoding and on the specific values of i and j for absolute positional encoding.
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