Fix Dynamic NTK RoPE scaling formula

[rt23-dev]

Purpose

Fix #41236. The Dynamic NTK RoPE scaling formula in
dynamic_ntk_scaling_rope.py was computing a constant instead of scaling
with sequence length.

max_len is defined as scaling_factor * max_position_embeddings, so
substituting it back in as scaling_factor * max_len / max_position_embeddings
simplifies to scaling_factor² — independent of sequence length. The correct
formula per the original NTK-Aware scaling paper is
(α * seq_len / max_position_embeddings) - (α - 1), where α = scaling_factor.
Removing the extra scaling_factor * multiplier restores correct behavior.

Affected models include nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1 and other Nomic
embedding models.

Test Plan

from vllm import LLM
llm = LLM(model="nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1", trust_remote_code=True)
output = llm.encode(["Hello world"])
print(output)

Test Result

Model loads and encodes correctly without errors. Base value now scales
properly with sequence length rather than returning a constant.

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Code Review

This pull request modifies the base frequency calculation in the dynamic NTK scaling RoPE implementation. The reviewer identified that the proposed change introduces a logic error that effectively disables NTK scaling by simplifying the formula to a constant factor of 1, which would cause the model to fail on long sequences. The reviewer provided a suggestion to revert the formula to its original state to maintain correct positional embedding interpolation.

[noooop]

Thanks for your contribution.

This issue involves more than it sounds and is very complex. Therefore, we prefer maxdebayser's fix #41277.

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merged. Please rebase the PR, @rt23-dev.

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