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Beyond Sequence Order: Syntax-Informed Positional Embeddings for Transformers

Positional embeddings (PE) in Transformers encode token distance and order but are largely agnostic to syntactic structure. We introduce Syntax-informed Positional Embeddings (SiPE), which learns a lightweight syntactic prior from dependency parses during pretraining and injects it across all three