Private Retrieval Augmented Generation via Random Projection
arXiv:2610.22297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by querying external structured knowledge. However, it can also introduce privacy risks by leaking sensitive information from the retrieval datastore. We propose a simple method to preserve datastore privacy in RAG systems via random projection. By applying the same projection to both datastore embeddings and query embeddings, our method provably preserv…