diff --git a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/xpos_rope_llama_monkey_patch.py b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/xpos_rope_llama_monkey_patch.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4cbbd4f47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/xpos_rope_llama_monkey_patch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# pylint: skip-file
+"""
+Copied from https://github.com/kaiokendev/cutoff-len-is-context-len/blob/main/util/xpos_rope_llama_monkey_patch.py
+"""
+import torch
+import transformers
+import transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama
+from einops import rearrange
+
+
+class XposRotaryEmbedding(torch.nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dim,
+        max_position_embeddings=2048,
+        base=10000,
+        device=None,
+        scale_base=2048,
+        use_xpos=True,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.max_seq_len_cached = max_position_embeddings
+        self.scale_base = scale_base
+
+        inv_freq = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2).float() / dim))
+        t = torch.arange(self.max_seq_len_cached, device=device).type_as(inv_freq)
+        freqs = torch.einsum("i , j -> i j", t, inv_freq)
+        freqs = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1)
+
+        self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False)
+        self.register_buffer("freqs_cached", freqs, persistent=False)
+
+        if not use_xpos:
+            self.register_buffer("scale", None)
+            self.register_buffer("scale_cached", torch.ones(1))
+            return
+
+        scale = (torch.arange(0, dim, 2) + 0.4 * dim) / (1.4 * dim)
+        power = (t - (self.max_seq_len_cached // 2)) / self.scale_base
+        scale_cached = scale ** rearrange(power, "n -> n 1")
+        scale_cached = torch.cat((scale_cached, scale_cached), dim=-1)
+
+        self.register_buffer("scale", scale, persistent=False)
+        self.register_buffer("scale_cached", scale_cached, persistent=False)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        x,
+        seq_len,
+    ):
+        if seq_len > self.max_seq_len_cached:
+            self.max_seq_len_cached = seq_len
+            t = torch.arange(self.max_seq_len_cached, device=x.device).type_as(
+                self.inv_freq
+            )
+            freqs = torch.einsum("i , j -> i j", t, self.inv_freq)
+            freqs = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1).to(dtype=x.dtype)
+
+            self.register_buffer("freqs_cached", freqs)
+
+            if self.scale is None:
+                self.register_buffer(
+                    "scale_cached", torch.ones(1, device=x.device).to(dtype=x.dtype)
+                )
+
+                return self.freqs_cached.to(dtype=x.dtype), self.scale_cached
+
+            power = (t - (seq_len // 2)) / self.scale_base
+            scale = self.scale ** rearrange(power, "n -> n 1")
+            scale = torch.cat((scale, scale), dim=-1).to(dtype=x.dtype)
+            self.register_buffer("scale_cached", scale)
+
+        return self.freqs_cached.to(dtype=x.dtype), self.scale_cached.to(dtype=x.dtype)
+
+
+def rotate_half(x):
+    x1, x2 = x.chunk(2, dim=-1)
+    return torch.cat((-x2, x1), dim=-1)
+
+
+def apply_rotary_pos_emb(q, k, freqs, scale=1, position_ids=None):
+    freqs = freqs[position_ids, :]
+    if scale.shape[-1] != 1:
+        scale = scale[position_ids, :]
+
+    q_embed = (q * freqs.cos() * scale) + (rotate_half(q) * freqs.sin() * scale)
+    k_embed = (k * freqs.cos() * 1 / scale) + (rotate_half(k) * freqs.sin() * 1 / scale)
+
+    return q_embed, k_embed
+
+
+def replace_llama_rope_with_xpos_rope():
+    transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama.LlamaRotaryEmbedding = XposRotaryEmbedding
+    transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama.apply_rotary_pos_emb = apply_rotary_pos_emb
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index 8ceaa0d53..1acaf6ab3 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ def load_model(
         # TODO: Check if this would overwrite previous additional_special_tokens
         tokenizer.add_special_tokens({"additional_special_tokens": [MEM_TOKEN]})
 
+    if cfg.is_llama_derived_model and cfg.xpos_rope:
+        from axolotl.monkeypatch.xpos_rope_llama_monkey_patch import (
+            replace_llama_rope_with_xpos_rope,
+        )
+
+        logging.info("patching with xpos rope")
+        replace_llama_rope_with_xpos_rope()
+
     if cfg.bf16:
         torch_dtype = torch.bfloat16
     elif cfg.load_in_8bit or cfg.fp16: