Dense Slides: From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google
Source Video
From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google
Method
This deck is slide-only. The existing captured video frame set supplies candidate frames, then local OpenCV rejects sponsor/title/speaker-only frames, crops visible slide surfaces, deduplicates, and saves the cropped slide images.
Cropped Visible Slides

- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: advanced OCR
rapidocr-live/border-trim/contrastreconciled by agent. - OCR decision: ready — Dense small text in four cards; OCR is likely more accurate than manual triage.
Slide text:
Running AI on the Edge has many benefits
Latency / UX
Faster, no network involved
Privacy
Sensitive data not sent off device
Offline use
Works without requiring cellular
Savings
Lower or no data-center costs
AI Engineer EUROPE
Classification audit: raw/sources/slide-ai-classification/dense/-TiET_K-E_g/audit.json