---
type: "Concept"
title: "Federated / confidential RAG"
description: "Applying the federated pattern to LLM-era retrieval and generation."
tags: [fl, llm, rag, federated]
generated: { by: human:crpage, at: 2026-07-09T09:44:00Z }
status: stable
---

Emerging work (e.g. Flower-based secure federated RAG) applies decentralisation to retrieval-augmented generation, keeping documents and indices distributed. The evidence base is still smaller than for classical FL.

Relates to: [Flower](../frameworks/flower.md), [Federated learning](federated-learning.md).