# Small models, big results: Achieving superior intent extraction through decomposition

DevFeed: [Small models, big results: Achieving superior intent extraction through decomposition](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/small-models-big-results-achieving-superior-intent-extraction-through-decomposition-6874.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://research.google/blog/small-models-big-results-achieving-superior-intent-extraction-through-decomposition/>)

Published: 2026-01-22T16:56:44Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The latest research from Google](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-latest-research-from-google.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [generative](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative.md>), [generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [machine-perception](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-perception.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [mobile-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile-systems.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [on-device](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-device.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

## AI overview

Google researchers describe a decomposed approach for extracting user intent from web and mobile UI interaction trajectories with small multimodal language models. The method summarizes individual screens first, then infers overall intent from the sequence of summaries, achieving results comparable to much larger models while supporting on-device processing.

## Source excerpt

Generative AI