arXiv AI By Yuhao Du, Shunian Chen

Aperture: Merge-Consistent Rotary States for Compressed Tokens

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The paper introduces Aperture, a method for storing Fourier moments of a token’s weighted support at rotary embedding frequencies to preserve positional information during token compression. It demonstrates that these moments provide the minimal real dimension necessary for maintaining expected rotary interactions, enabling additive updates and separate attention normalization. Experiments show that Aperture’s stored support achieves 65.63% accuracy in a video question‑answering task, slightly below the 67.12% accuracy of a standard merging rule, highlighting the trade‑off between exact positional preservation and downstream performance.

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