Pith Number

pith:VVSX6WBW

pith:2015:VVSX6WBW4YCQH57XZBTVJGPSUM

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Understanding Image Virality

Arturo Deza, Devi Parikh

arxiv:1503.02318 v3 · 2015-03-08 · cs.SI · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVSX6WBW4YCQH57XZBTVJGPSUM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:11.023083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad657f5836e60503f7f7c8675499f2a30f3a40957b81d482a3bd2f3d9342c9b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.02318 · arxiv_version: 1503.02318v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.02318 · pith_short_12: VVSX6WBW4YCQ · pith_short_16: VVSX6WBW4YCQH57X · pith_short_8: VVSX6WBW

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/VVSX6WBW4YCQH57XZBTVJGPSUM \
  | 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: ad657f5836e60503f7f7c8675499f2a30f3a40957b81d482a3bd2f3d9342c9b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "694f4dc0c196579df4c6f0526accb1b9edf6ac2d17f42b28b796245613763009",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-08T20:29:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59f8fbdead5df6bf1bd54e2476299c3f2c089b0786b92d600f3def6fbd8f9d9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.02318",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}