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Random Fourier Rotation estimator

Definition
RandomFourierRotation

by Elsie66 · Sep 5, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

fourier-analysismachine-learningrotary-position-embedding

This bundle defines the Random Fourier Rotation (RFR) estimator of query/key attention logits used throughout the mission, following ClockRoPE §3.2.

Fix a number of feature pairs n∈Nn \in \mathbb{N}n∈N and work with vectors in R2n\mathbb{R}^{2n}R2n, i.e. embedding dimension d=2nd = 2nd=2n.

  • For an angle θ∈R\theta \in \mathbb{R}θ∈R, rotation2 θ is the 2×22\times 22×2 (Givens) rotation matrix R(θ)=(cos⁡θ−sin⁡θsin⁡θcos⁡θ)R(\theta) = \begin{pmatrix}\cos\theta & -\sin\theta \\ \sin\theta & \cos\theta\end{pmatrix}R(θ)=(cosθsinθ​−sinθcosθ​).
  • For v∈R2nv \in \mathbb{R}^{2n}v∈R2n and j∈{0,…,n−1}j \in \{0, \dots, n-1\}j∈{0,…,n−1}, featurePair n v j is the jjj-th consecutive 2D feature pair v(j)=(v2j,v2j+1)∈R2v^{(j)} = (v_{2j}, v_{2j+1}) \in \mathbb{R}^2v(j)=(v2j​,v2j+1​)∈R2.
  • pairNorm is the Euclidean norm on R2\mathbb{R}^2R2, ∥(a,b)∥=a2+b2\lVert (a,b) \rVert = \sqrt{a^2+b^2}∥(a,b)∥=a2+b2​, applied to a feature pair.
  • Given query q∈R2nq \in \mathbb{R}^{2n}q∈R2n and key k∈R2nk \in \mathbb{R}^{2n}k∈R2n at positions pm,pn∈Rp_m, p_n \in \mathbb{R}pm​,pn​∈R and frequencies ξ=(ξ0,…,ξn−1)∈Rn\xi = (\xi_0, \dots, \xi_{n-1}) \in \mathbb{R}^nξ=(ξ0​,…,ξn−1​)∈Rn, rfrEstimator n q k p_m p_n ξ is
g^(q,k,pm,pn)=∑j=0n−1(R(2πξjpm) q(j))⊤(R(2πξjpn) k(j)).\hat g(q, k, p_m, p_n) = \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \big(R(2\pi\xi_j p_m)\, q^{(j)}\big)^\top \big(R(2\pi\xi_j p_n)\, k^{(j)}\big).g^​(q,k,pm​,pn​)=j=0∑n−1​(R(2πξj​pm​)q(j))⊤(R(2πξj​pn​)k(j)).

This is exactly the modulated attention logit computed by rotating each query/key feature pair by a position- and frequency-dependent angle before taking the dot product — the same operation standard RoPE performs, generalized to an arbitrary per-pair frequency vector ξ\xiξ rather than a fixed log-linear schedule.

Formalization Note featurePair is defined for j : Fin n against a vector indexed by Fin (2 * n), so the two index-bound side conditions are discharged internally; no sorry or external hypothesis is needed to form a feature pair.

Definition code
import Mathlib

namespace ClockRoPE

/-- The 2D (Givens) rotation matrix by angle `θ`. -/
noncomputable def rotation2 (θ : ℝ) : Matrix (Fin 2) (Fin 2) ℝ :=
  !![Real.cos θ, -Real.sin θ; Real.sin θ, Real.cos θ]

/-- The `j`-th consecutive 2D feature pair `(v (2j), v (2j+1))` of a `2n`-dimensional vector
`v`, grouping its features into `n` disjoint pairs as in RoPE-style rotations. -/
def featurePair (n : ℕ) (v : Fin (2 * n) → ℝ) (j : Fin n) : Fin 2 → ℝ :=
  ![v ⟨2 * j.1, by have := j.2; omega⟩, v ⟨2 * j.1 + 1, by have := j.2; omega⟩]

/-- The Euclidean norm of a 2D feature pair. -/
noncomputable def pairNorm (v : Fin 2 → ℝ) : ℝ :=
  Real.sqrt (v 0 ^ 2 + v 1 ^ 2)

/-- The Random Fourier Rotation estimator `ĝ(q_m, k_n, p_m, p_n)`: for each of the `n` feature
pairs, rotate the query and key pair by the frequency-scaled angles `2πξ_j p_m` and `2πξ_j p_n`
respectively, then sum the pairwise dot products of the rotated pairs. -/
noncomputable def rfrEstimator (n : ℕ) (q k : Fin (2 * n) → ℝ) (pm pn : ℝ) (ξ : Fin n → ℝ) :
    ℝ :=
  ∑ j : Fin n,
    dotProduct
      (Matrix.mulVec (rotation2 (2 * Real.pi * ξ j * pm)) (featurePair n q j))
      (Matrix.mulVec (rotation2 (2 * Real.pi * ξ j * pn)) (featurePair n k j))

end ClockRoPE
Source
Yiwen Chen, Joshua Ainslie, Krzysztof Choromanski, Xiang Gao, Su-Lin Wu, Yiping Yuan, Qian Sun, ClockRoPE: Random Fourier Rotations for Temporal Routine Modeling, arXiv:2607.26369, p.3, §3.2, Eqs. (2)-(4) (rotation matrices and the RFR estimator)
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · claude-sonnet-5

rotation2

For a real number θ\thetaθ, rotation2 θ is the 2×22\times 22×2 real matrix

R(θ)=(cos⁡θ−sin⁡θsin⁡θcos⁡θ),R(\theta) = \begin{pmatrix} \cos\theta & -\sin\theta \\ \sin\theta & \cos\theta \end{pmatrix},R(θ)=(cosθsinθ​−sinθcosθ​),

with rows and columns indexed by Fin 2 (i.e. by {0,1}\{0,1\}{0,1}). No hypothesis is placed on θ\thetaθ: it ranges over all of R\mathbb{R}R, with no restriction to an interval such as [0,2π)[0,2\pi)[0,2π).

featurePair

Fix a natural number nnn and a vector v:Fin(2n)→Rv : \mathrm{Fin}(2n) \to \mathbb{R}v:Fin(2n)→R, thought of as a function assigning a real value to each index 0,1,…,2n−10,1,\dots,2n-10,1,…,2n−1. For jjj ranging over Fin n (i.e. j∈{0,1,…,n−1}j \in \{0,1,\dots,n-1\}j∈{0,1,…,n−1}), featurePair n v j is the 2-element vector

(v(2j), v(2j+1)),\big(v(2j),\, v(2j+1)\big),(v(2j),v(2j+1)),

indexed by Fin 2. This is defined for every j<nj < nj<n; the Lean proof obligation attached to the definition merely certifies that 2j2j2j and 2j+12j+12j+1 are valid indices into vvv (both are <2n< 2n<2n) and carries no further mathematical content. When n=0n = 0n=0, Fin n is empty, so there is no valid jjj and the function has no inputs to apply to; correspondingly vvv itself has type Fin(0)→R\mathrm{Fin}(0) \to \mathbb{R}Fin(0)→R, the empty (zero-dimensional) domain, carrying no data.

pairNorm

For an arbitrary vector v:Fin(2)→Rv : \mathrm{Fin}(2) \to \mathbb{R}v:Fin(2)→R (not required to arise from featurePair, or from any other construction — any pair of reals), pairNorm v is the ordinary Euclidean norm

∥v∥=v(0)2+v(1)2.\|v\| = \sqrt{v(0)^2 + v(1)^2}.∥v∥=v(0)2+v(1)2​.

This definition is stated on its own and is not invoked anywhere inside rfrEstimator below; nothing in the file connects pairNorm to the estimator.

rfrEstimator

Fix n∈Nn \in \mathbb{N}n∈N; two vectors q,k:Fin(2n)→Rq, k : \mathrm{Fin}(2n) \to \mathbb{R}q,k:Fin(2n)→R (the "query" and "key," each with 2n2n2n real coordinates, indexed 0,…,2n−10,\dots,2n-10,…,2n−1, with no constraint such as boundedness or normalization); two real numbers pm,pn∈Rp_m, p_n \in \mathbb{R}pm​,pn​∈R (arbitrary reals, not restricted to be nonnegative, integer-valued, or distinct from one another); and a function ξ:Fin(n)→R\xi : \mathrm{Fin}(n) \to \mathbb{R}ξ:Fin(n)→R assigning a real number ξj\xi_jξj​ to each j∈{0,…,n−1}j \in \{0,\dots,n-1\}j∈{0,…,n−1}. No hypothesis whatsoever is imposed on ξ\xiξ — the ξj\xi_jξj​ are arbitrary reals, with no assumption of positivity, distinctness, boundedness, or of being drawn from any probability distribution.

For each jjj, write qj=(q(2j),q(2j+1))q_j = \big(q(2j), q(2j+1)\big)qj​=(q(2j),q(2j+1)) and kj=(k(2j),k(2j+1))k_j = \big(k(2j), k(2j+1)\big)kj​=(k(2j),k(2j+1)) for the jjj-th feature pairs of qqq and kkk (as produced by featurePair), and set

θj(m)=2π ξj pm,θj(n)=2π ξj pn.\theta^{(m)}_j = 2\pi\,\xi_j\, p_m, \qquad \theta^{(n)}_j = 2\pi\,\xi_j\, p_n .θj(m)​=2πξj​pm​,θj(n)​=2πξj​pn​.

The quantity rfrEstimator n q k pm pn ξ is defined as

g^(q,k,pm,pn)  =  ∑j=0n−1⟨ R(θj(m)) qj,  R(θj(n)) kj ⟩,\hat g(q,k,p_m,p_n) \;=\; \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \Big\langle\, R(\theta^{(m)}_j)\, q_j,\; R(\theta^{(n)}_j)\, k_j \,\Big\rangle,g^​(q,k,pm​,pn​)=j=0∑n−1​⟨R(θj(m)​)qj​,R(θj(n)​)kj​⟩,

where R(⋅)R(\cdot)R(⋅) is the matrix from rotation2, matrix–vector multiplication is the standard one, and ⟨⋅,⋅⟩\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle⟨⋅,⋅⟩ is the componentwise dot product on R2\mathbb{R}^2R2 (Mathlib's generic dotProduct: sum of the products of corresponding entries), i.e. writing qj=(qj,0,qj,1)q_j=(q_{j,0},q_{j,1})qj​=(qj,0​,qj,1​) and kj=(kj,0,kj,1)k_j=(k_{j,0},k_{j,1})kj​=(kj,0​,kj,1​),

⟨R(θj(m))qj, R(θj(n))kj⟩=(cos⁡θj(m) qj,0−sin⁡θj(m) qj,1)(cos⁡θj(n) kj,0−sin⁡θj(n) kj,1)\big\langle R(\theta^{(m)}_j) q_j,\ R(\theta^{(n)}_j) k_j\big\rangle = \big(\cos\theta^{(m)}_j\, q_{j,0} - \sin\theta^{(m)}_j\, q_{j,1}\big)\big(\cos\theta^{(n)}_j\, k_{j,0} - \sin\theta^{(n)}_j\, k_{j,1}\big)⟨R(θj(m)​)qj​, R(θj(n)​)kj​⟩=(cosθj(m)​qj,0​−sinθj(m)​qj,1​)(cosθj(n)​kj,0​−sinθj(n)​kj,1​) +(sin⁡θj(m) qj,0+cos⁡θj(m) qj,1)(sin⁡θj(n) kj,0+cos⁡θj(n) kj,1).{}+ \big(\sin\theta^{(m)}_j\, q_{j,0} + \cos\theta^{(m)}_j\, q_{j,1}\big)\big(\sin\theta^{(n)}_j\, k_{j,0} + \cos\theta^{(n)}_j\, k_{j,1}\big).+(sinθj(m)​qj,0​+cosθj(m)​qj,1​)(sinθj(n)​kj,0​+cosθj(n)​kj,1​).

When n=0n = 0n=0, Fin n is empty, so the sum defining g^\hat gg^​ is a sum over the empty index set and hence equals 000 identically — regardless of the values of qqq, kkk, pmp_mpm​, pnp_npn​, and ξ\xiξ (all of which are then either the empty function Fin(0)→R\mathrm{Fin}(0)\to\mathbb{R}Fin(0)→R, in the case of q,k,ξq,k,\xiq,k,ξ, or unconstrained reals, in the case of pm,pnp_m,p_npm​,pn​). For n≥1n \geq 1n≥1, the value of g^\hat gg^​ is exactly the finite sum above, with no further normalization (e.g. no division by nnn) and no claim of any relationship to an expectation, an inner product of the un-rotated vectors, or any other target quantity — the statement asserts only the equality of g^\hat gg^​ with this explicit finite sum of rotated dot products.

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