BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics

Summary: BlazeIt (FRAMEQL) provides a declarative SQL-like layer for video analytics over neural annotations, enabling optimized spatiotemporal queries. NN control variates for fast, error-bounded aggregations and a cardinality-limited query search yield up to 83x speedups over prior work. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12254
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 0.00018048935
Overall Rank: 696 | 95.16%
DOI: 10.14778/3372716.3372725

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11,426	Accelerating Queries over Unstructured Data with ML	2021	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,482	Pool of Experts: Realtime Querying Specialized Knowledge in Massive Neural Networks	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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1,874	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010244443
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