Is Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings superseded?

Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings (Long-context / context-window extension): current frontier — recent, not yet superseded in the knowledge base. 0 paper(s) critique it, 0 beat it on benchmarks — not ranked as a superseded baseline. Sub-problem: cluster led by RoPE. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include Mask Prior Suppression and Monotonic RoPE Scaling, CRoPE, C^2RoPE, Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings, Selective RoPE.

Long-context / context-window extension

Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings

Beyond Real: Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings for Long-Context LLMs

On the frontierfirst seen Dec 8, 2025

Current frontier — recent, not yet superseded in the knowledge base

0 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.

Mask Prior Suppression and Monotonic RoPE ScalingMitigating Mask Prior Drift and Positional Attention Collapse in Large Diffusion Vision-Language Models
May 14, 2026
CRoPECRoPE: Efficient Parametrization of Rotary Positional Embedding
Apr 1, 2026
C^2RoPEC^2ROPE: Causal Continuous Rotary Positional Encoding for 3D Large Multimodal-Models Reasoning
Feb 11, 2026
Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position EmbeddingsBeyond Real: Imaginary Extension of Rotary Position Embeddings for Long-Context LLMs
Dec 8, 2025
Selective RoPESelective Rotary Position Embedding
Nov 21, 2025