---
library_name: kernels
license: bsd-3-clause
---

> [!WARNING]
> These rotary kernels are based on the old [CUDA implementations](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/tree/2715c53932c28e81c15ad4d1690639b77ddda6c1/csrc/rotary) in the [FlashAttention repository](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention). These kernels are no longer maintained upstream.

This is the repository card of kernels-community/rotary that has been pushed on the Hub. It was built to be used with the [`kernels` library](https://github.com/huggingface/kernels). This card was automatically generated.

## How to use

```python
# make sure `kernels` is installed: `pip install -U kernels`
from kernels import get_kernel

kernel_module = get_kernel("kernels-community/rotary", version=3)
apply_rotary = kernel_module.apply_rotary

apply_rotary(...)
```

## Available functions
- `apply_rotary`
- `apply_rotary_transformers`

## Available layers
- `apply_rotary_transformers`

## Benchmarks

Benchmarking script is available for this kernel. Run `kernels benchmark kernels-community/rotary --version 3`.