Zeus: Efficiently Localizing Actions in Videos using Reinforcement Learning

Summary: Zeus uses an RL agent to localize actions in video by selecting sampling rate, length, and resolution to meet a target accuracy. Yields up to 22.1x speedups over frame-based and window-based baselines, while consistently meeting accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6490
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.6094155e-05
Overall Rank: 5,232 | 63.64%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3526181

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6,122	VOCAL: Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics	2022	CIDR	5.1966758e-05
6,306	Seiden: Revisiting Query Processing in Video Database Systems	2023	VLDB	5.1146055e-05
6,868	Extract-Transform-Load for Video Streams	2023	VLDB	4.8982283e-05
7,334	Aero: Adaptive Query Processing of ML Queries	2025	SIGMOD	4.7538944e-05
8,382	EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions	2023	VLDB	4.5263687e-05
9,346	SketchQL: Video Moment Querying with a Visual Query Interface	2024	SIGMOD	4.3512358e-05
9,772	Everest: A Top-K Deep Video Analytics System	2022	SIGMOD	4.2815042e-05
9,787	The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format	2024	SIGMOD	4.2799988e-05
10,394	MAST: Towards Efficient Analytical Query Processing on Point Cloud Data	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,512	Self-Enhancing Video Data Management System for Compositional Events with Large Language Models	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,532	Scalable Complex Event Processing on Video Streams	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,947	Predictive and Near-Optimal Sampling for View Materialization in Video Databases	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,064	Optimizing Video Queries with Declarative Clues	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
309	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00028195213
332	Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates	2018	SIGMOD	0.00027173479
694	BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics	2020	VLDB	0.00018031141
1,390	MIRIS: Fast Object Track Queries in Video	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012242018
4,749	ODIN: Automated Drift Detection and Recovery in Video Analytics	2020	VLDB	5.9428569e-05

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