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RAGMedium· Federated RAG· Latency Optimization· Cost Management

You’re running federated RAG over a dozen independently...

Broadcasting queries to all knowledge bases is inefficient. Instead of using a heavy LLM call for every query, you should employ a lightweight learned classifier that analyzes the query embedding alongside cheap summary statistics from each source. This approach treats source selection as a coarse routing decision, which is significantly more cost-effective and faster than performing a full generation task for every potential source.

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