diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d469cc..7deac03 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ We also support the `Decoder` architecture and the `EncoderDecoder` architecture
   * enabled by *multiway=True*.
   * It provides a pool of Transformer's parameters used for different modalities.
 
+- [Extrapolatable position embedding (Xpos)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10554)
+  * enabled by *xpos_rel_pos=True*.
+
 - [Relative position bias](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683)
   * enabled by adjusting *rel_pos_buckets* and *max_rel_pos*.
 
diff --git a/examples/fairseq/models/language_modeling.py b/examples/fairseq/models/language_modeling.py
index 7ec7b33..71bf1a5 100644
--- a/examples/fairseq/models/language_modeling.py
+++ b/examples/fairseq/models/language_modeling.py
@@ -190,6 +190,12 @@ class LanguageConfig(FairseqDataclass):
     max_rel_pos: Optional[int] = field(
         default=0,
     )
+    xpos_rel_pos: Optional[bool] = field(
+        default=False,
+    )
+    xpos_scale_base: Optional[int] = field(
+        default=512,
+    )
 
 
 @register_model("lm", dataclass=LanguageConfig)
diff --git a/torchscale/architecture/config.py b/torchscale/architecture/config.py
index a77a742..6b8bb5c 100644
--- a/torchscale/architecture/config.py
+++ b/torchscale/architecture/config.py
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ class EncoderConfig(object):
         self.checkpoint_activations = kwargs.pop("checkpoint_activations", False)
         self.fsdp = kwargs.pop("fsdp", False)
         self.ddp_rank = kwargs.pop("ddp_rank", 0)
-        self.xpos = kwargs.pop("xpos", False)
+        self.xpos_rel_pos = kwargs.pop("xpos_rel_pos", False)
+        self.xpos_scale_base = kwargs.pop("xpos_scale_base", 512)
 
         if self.deepnorm:
             self.encoder_normalize_before = False
@@ -111,7 +112,8 @@ class DecoderConfig(object):
         self.checkpoint_activations = kwargs.pop("checkpoint_activations", False)
         self.fsdp = kwargs.pop("fsdp", False)
         self.ddp_rank = kwargs.pop("ddp_rank", 0)
-        self.xpos = kwargs.pop("xpos", False)
+        self.xpos_rel_pos = kwargs.pop("xpos_rel_pos", False)
+        self.xpos_scale_base = kwargs.pop("xpos_scale_base", 512)
 
         if self.deepnorm:
             self.decoder_normalize_before = False
@@ -180,7 +182,8 @@ class EncoderDecoderConfig(object):
         self.checkpoint_activations = kwargs.pop("checkpoint_activations", False)
         self.fsdp = kwargs.pop("fsdp", False)
         self.ddp_rank = kwargs.pop("ddp_rank", 0)
-        self.xpos = kwargs.pop("xpos", False)
+        self.xpos_rel_pos = kwargs.pop("xpos_rel_pos", False)
+        self.xpos_scale_base = kwargs.pop("xpos_scale_base", 512)
 
         if self.deepnorm:
             self.encoder_normalize_before = False
diff --git a/torchscale/component/multihead_attention.py b/torchscale/component/multihead_attention.py
index b00e54d..3c67c28 100644
--- a/torchscale/component/multihead_attention.py
+++ b/torchscale/component/multihead_attention.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from apex.normalization import FusedLayerNorm as LayerNorm
 from torch import nn
 
 from .multiway_network import MultiwayWrapper
-from .xpos import XPOS
+from .xpos_relative_position import XPOS
 
 
 class MultiheadAttention(nn.Module):
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ class MultiheadAttention(nn.Module):
         )
         self.dropout_module = torch.nn.Dropout(dropout, inplace=True)
         self.xpos = (
-            XPOS(self.head_dim)
-            if args.xpos and self.self_attention
+            XPOS(self.head_dim, args.xpos_scale_base)
+            if args.xpos_rel_pos and self.self_attention
             else None
         )
 
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ class MultiheadAttention(nn.Module):
                 offset = src_len - 1
             else:
                 offset = 0
-            k = self.xpos(k, downscale=True)
-            q = self.xpos(q, offset=offset)
+            k = self.xpos(k, offset=0, downscale=True)
+            q = self.xpos(q, offset=offset, downscale=False)
 
         attn_weights = torch.bmm(q, k.transpose(1, 2))
 
diff --git a/torchscale/component/xpos.py b/torchscale/component/xpos_relative_position.py
similarity index 97%
rename from torchscale/component/xpos.py
rename to torchscale/component/xpos_relative_position.py
index 3ab2380..a3ec129 100644
--- a/torchscale/component/xpos.py
+++ b/torchscale/component/xpos_relative_position.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class XPOS(nn.Module):
     def forward(self, x, offset=0, downscale=False):
         length = x.shape[1]
         min_pos = -(length + offset) // 2
-        max_pos = length + offset - min_pos
+        max_pos = length + offset + min_pos
         scale = self.scale ** torch.arange(min_pos, max_pos, 1).to(self.scale).div(self.scale_base)[:, None]
         sin, cos = fixed_pos_embedding(scale)