Pith Number

pith:HEB3YP2L

pith:2018:HEB3YP2LTSD54HWWBTHBCK274V

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Will This Video Go Viral? Explaining and Predicting the Popularity of Youtube Videos

Lexing Xie, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Quyu Kong, Siqi Wu

arxiv:1801.04117 v2 · 2018-01-12 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HEB3YP2LTSD54HWWBTHBCK274V}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:15.664080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3903bc3f4b9c87de1ed60cce112b5fe54b271eaa51331a786808decf919abd14

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04117 · arxiv_version: 1801.04117v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04117 · pith_short_12: HEB3YP2LTSD5 · pith_short_16: HEB3YP2LTSD54HWW · pith_short_8: HEB3YP2L

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HEB3YP2LTSD54HWWBTHBCK274V \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 3903bc3f4b9c87de1ed60cce112b5fe54b271eaa51331a786808decf919abd14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61742a2d50a32f0aee12cbc7c05aa129ce8159539ffd684155406ebdd40b3894",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-12T10:03:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca9c5c84644afe238a9696699fcbd97a5dc4b7a9037d1d22a089f39d4511b669"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}