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title: "What role does positional encoding play, and what are its limitations?"  
description: "What role does positional encoding play, and what are its limitations?"  
author: "Manish Kumar"  
published: 2026-06-12  
updated: 2026-06-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116796/what-role-does-positional-encoding-play-and-what-are-its-limitations  
category: "artificial-intelligence"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence", "llm"]  

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# What role does positional encoding play, and what are its limitations?


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