Marcus Anderson

Research notes, papers, and archived music work.

Research

Musical Repetition as Vocal Self-Simulation
A mechanistic theory arguing that precise repetition of affective vocalisation is the core process that turns sound into musical experience.
Inverse-Square Distance Priors Improve Network Pruning at Extreme Sparsity
Tests a biologically inspired 1/d^2 wiring prior for sparse neural networks, showing improved ResNet-18 performance at 98-99% sparsity.
Bandwidth and Capacity Systematically Shape the Topology of Inverse-Square Distance Pruning
Characterizes how inverse-square pruning changes network topology across input resolution and model size, highlighting bandwidth-dependent clustering and stronger 2D embeddings.