diff --git a/tests/models/test_rope_scaling.py b/tests/models/test_rope_scaling.py
index 33f7f0b383..484ac2b23a 100644
--- a/tests/models/test_rope_scaling.py
+++ b/tests/models/test_rope_scaling.py
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright 2024 MosaicML LLM Foundry authors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-import math
-from typing import Tuple
-
-import torch
 from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama import LlamaRotaryEmbedding
 
 from llmfoundry.models.mpt.modeling_mpt import gen_rotary_embedding
@@ -24,66 +19,6 @@
 rope_dail_config = {}
 
 
-def apply_scaling(freqs: torch.Tensor):
-    # Values obtained from grid search
-    scale_factor = 8
-    low_freq_factor = 1
-    high_freq_factor = 4
-    old_context_len = 8192  # original llama3 length
-
-    low_freq_wavelen = old_context_len / low_freq_factor
-    high_freq_wavelen = old_context_len / high_freq_factor
-    new_freqs = []
-    for freq in freqs:
-        wavelen = 2 * math.pi / freq
-        if wavelen < high_freq_wavelen:
-            new_freqs.append(freq)
-        elif wavelen > low_freq_wavelen:
-            new_freqs.append(freq / scale_factor)
-        else:
-            assert low_freq_wavelen != high_freq_wavelen
-            smooth = (old_context_len / wavelen -
-                      low_freq_factor) / (high_freq_factor - low_freq_factor)
-            new_freqs.append((1 - smooth) * freq / scale_factor + smooth * freq)
-    return torch.tensor(new_freqs, dtype=freqs.dtype, device=freqs.device)
-
-
-def precompute_freqs_cis(
-    dim: int,
-    end: int,
-    theta: float = 10000.0,
-    use_scaled: bool = False,
-):
-    freqs = 1.0 / (theta**(torch.arange(0, dim, 2)[:(dim // 2)].float() / dim))
-    t = torch.arange(end, device=freqs.device, dtype=torch.float32)
-    if use_scaled:
-        freqs = apply_scaling(freqs)
-    freqs = torch.outer(t, freqs)
-    freqs_cis = torch.polar(torch.ones_like(freqs), freqs)  # complex64
-    return freqs_cis
-
-
-def reshape_for_broadcast(freqs_cis: torch.Tensor, x: torch.Tensor):
-    ndim = x.ndim
-    assert 0 <= 1 < ndim
-    assert freqs_cis.shape == (x.shape[1], x.shape[-1])
-    shape = [d if i == 1 or i == ndim - 1 else 1 for i, d in enumerate(x.shape)]
-    return freqs_cis.view(*shape)
-
-
-def apply_rotary_emb(
-    xq: torch.Tensor,
-    xk: torch.Tensor,
-    freqs_cis: torch.Tensor,
-) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-    xq_ = torch.view_as_complex(xq.float().reshape(*xq.shape[:-1], -1, 2))
-    xk_ = torch.view_as_complex(xk.float().reshape(*xk.shape[:-1], -1, 2))
-    freqs_cis = reshape_for_broadcast(freqs_cis, xq_)
-    xq_out = torch.view_as_real(xq_ * freqs_cis).flatten(3)
-    xk_out = torch.view_as_real(xk_ * freqs_cis).flatten(3)
-    return xq_out.type_as(xq), xk_out.type_as(xk)
-
-
 def test_rope_scaling():
     d_model = 128
     n_heads = 32
@@ -98,34 +33,3 @@ def test_rope_scaling():
     )
 
     assert isinstance(embedding, LlamaRotaryEmbedding)
-
-    xq = torch.randn(1, max_seq_len, n_heads, d_model // n_heads)
-    xk = torch.randn(1, max_seq_len, n_heads, d_model // n_heads)
-    position_ids = torch.arange(max_seq_len).unsqueeze(0)
-
-    freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(
-        d_model // n_heads,
-        max_seq_len,
-        rope_config['rope_theta'],
-        use_scaled=True,
-    )
-
-    rope_embeddings_q, rope_embeddings_k = embedding.forward(
-        xq,
-        position_ids,
-    ), embedding.forward(xk, position_ids)
-
-    rope_embeddings_q, rope_embeddings_k = torch.stack(
-        rope_embeddings_q,
-        dim=-1,
-    ), torch.stack(rope_embeddings_k, dim=-1)
-
-    rope_embeddings_q, rope_embeddings_k = rope_embeddings_q.reshape(
-        *rope_embeddings_q.shape[:-2],
-        -1,
-    ), rope_embeddings_k.reshape(*rope_embeddings_k.shape[:-2], -1)
-
-    expected_q, expected_k = apply_rotary_emb(xq, xk, freqs_cis)
-
-    torch.testing.assert_close(rope_embeddings_q, expected_q)
-    torch.testing.assert_close(rope_embeddings_k, expected_k)