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Comparative Analysis of Sparse Attention Mechanisms in Synthetic Cognition Systems: Optimizing Reasoning Efficiency in Large Language Models Author: Dr. Rigoberto GarciaDepartment: Department of Computer Science and Artificial IntelligenceInstitution: SSAI UniversityCourse: CS 498: Computer Science Senior CapstoneDate: March 13, 2026 Abstract As synthetic cognition systems scale, the quadratic computational cost of the standard self-attention mechanism becomes…

