# Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE

DevFeed: [Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-federated-multimodal-ai-workflows-with-nvidia-flare-6776.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/building-federated-multimodal-ai-workflows-with-nvidia-flare/>)

Author: Tanya Lenz

Published: 2026-08-19T17:50:47Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Developer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-developer.md>), [NVIDIA Technical Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-technical-blog.md>)

Topics: [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlm.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai-generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai-generative-ai.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [data-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-science.md>), [edge-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge-computing.md>), [featured](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/featured.md>), [federated-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/federated-learning.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [multimodal-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal-ai.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training.md>), [training-ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training-ai-models.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>), [vlms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlms.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how NVIDIA FLARE supports federated training for multimodal and vision-language models when data remains distributed across sites. It focuses on deciding which model state to exchange and on efficiently transferring and aggregating large updates through externalization, tensor streaming, and disk-backed aggregation.

## Source excerpt

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data...