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title: "Why is positional encoding needed in Transformers?"  
description: "Why is positional encoding needed in Transformers?"  
author: "Manish Kumar"  
published: 2026-06-11  
updated: 2026-06-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116779/why-is-positional-encoding-needed-in-transformers  
category: "artificial-intelligence"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence", "llm", "transformers"]  

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# Why is positional encoding needed in Transformers?


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