diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
index f717d1e..c2fca66 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
@@ -161,6 +161,44 @@ class MLP(nn.Module):
     def forward(self, x):
         return self.net(x.float())
 
+# relative positional bias for causal transformer
+
+class RelPosBias(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        heads = 8,
+        num_buckets = 32,
+        max_distance = 128,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.num_buckets = num_buckets
+        self.max_distance = max_distance
+        self.relative_attention_bias = nn.Embedding(num_buckets, heads)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _relative_position_bucket(
+        relative_position,
+        num_buckets = 32,
+        max_distance = 128
+    ):
+        n = -relative_position
+        n = torch.max(n, torch.zeros_like(n))
+
+        max_exact = num_buckets // 2
+        is_small = n < max_exact
+
+        val_if_large = max_exact + (torch.log(n.float() / max_exact) / math.log(max_distance / max_exact) * (num_buckets - max_exact)).long()
+        val_if_large = torch.min(val_if_large, torch.full_like(val_if_large, num_buckets - 1))
+        return torch.where(is_small, n, val_if_large)
+
+    def forward(self, i, j, *, device):
+        q_pos = torch.arange(i, dtype = torch.long, device = device)
+        k_pos = torch.arange(j, dtype = torch.long, device = device)
+        rel_pos = rearrange(k_pos, 'j -> 1 j') - rearrange(q_pos, 'i -> i 1')
+        rp_bucket = self._relative_position_bucket(rel_pos, num_buckets = self.num_buckets, max_distance = self.max_distance)
+        values = self.relative_attention_bias(rp_bucket)
+        return rearrange(values, 'i j h -> h i j')
+
 # feedforward
 
 class SwiGLU(nn.Module):
@@ -208,7 +246,7 @@ class Attention(nn.Module):
         self.to_kv = nn.Linear(dim, dim_head * 2, bias = False)
         self.to_out = nn.Linear(inner_dim, dim, bias = False)
 
-    def forward(self, x, mask = None):
+    def forward(self, x, mask = None, attn_bias = None):
         b, n, device = *x.shape[:2], x.device
 
         x = self.norm(x)
@@ -225,6 +263,14 @@ class Attention(nn.Module):
         q = q * self.scale
 
         sim = einsum('b h i d, b j d -> b h i j', q, k)
+
+        # relative positional encoding (T5 style)
+
+        if exists(attn_bias):
+            sim = sim + attn_bias
+
+        # masking
+
         max_neg_value = -torch.finfo(sim.dtype).max
 
         if exists(mask):
@@ -237,10 +283,14 @@ class Attention(nn.Module):
             causal_mask = torch.ones((i, j), dtype = torch.bool, device = device).triu(j - i + 1)
             sim = sim.masked_fill(causal_mask, max_neg_value)
 
+        # attention
+
         sim = sim - sim.amax(dim = -1, keepdim = True)
         attn = sim.softmax(dim = -1)
         attn = self.dropout(attn)
 
+        # aggregate values
+
         out = einsum('b h i j, b j d -> b h i d', attn, v)
 
         out = rearrange(out, 'b h n d -> b n (h d)')
@@ -260,7 +310,7 @@ class CausalTransformer(nn.Module):
         ff_dropout = 0.
     ):
         super().__init__()
-        # todo - bring in rotary embeddings or alibi
+        self.rel_pos_bias = RelPosBias(heads = heads)
 
         self.layers = nn.ModuleList([])
         for _ in range(depth):
@@ -276,8 +326,12 @@ class CausalTransformer(nn.Module):
         x,
         mask = None    # we will need a mask here, due to variable length of the text encodings - also offer dalle1 strategy with padding token embeddings
     ):
+        n, device = x.shape[1], x.device
+
+        attn_bias = self.rel_pos_bias(n, n + 1, device = device)
+
         for attn, ff in self.layers:
-            x = attn(x, mask = mask) + x
+            x = attn(x, mask = mask, attn_bias = attn_bias) + x
             x = ff(x) + x
 
         return self.norm(x)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9abd021..7373c19 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ setup(
       'dream = dalle2_pytorch.cli:dream'
     ],
   },
-  version = '0.0.14',
+  version = '0.0.15',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'DALL-E 2',
   author = 'Phil Wang',