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Kin Fai Tse

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-4687-5539ORCID · reported

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Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Distributed systems · 50% Interconnection networks and networks-on-chip · 25% High-performance computing · 25%
Computer networks
1 paper
Datacenter networks · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
High-performance computing
collective communication
0.912025
MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training · SIGCOMM 2025
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning
distributed training communication
0.912025
MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training · SIGCOMM 2025
Interconnection networks and networks-on-chip › interconnect architecture
GPU interconnect
0.912025
MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training · SIGCOMM 2025
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning › distributed training
mixture-of-experts training
0.912025
MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training · SIGCOMM 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

optical circuit switching · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training
abstract
Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) models outperform conventional models by selectively activating different subnets, named experts, on a per-token basis. This gated computation generates dynamic communications that cannot be determined beforehand, challenging the existing GPU interconnects that remain static during distributed training. In this paper, we advocate for a first-of-its-kind system, called MixNet, that unlocks topology reconfiguration during distributed MoE training. Towards this vision, we first perform a production measurement study and show that the MoE dynamic communication pattern has strong locality, alleviating the need for global reconfiguration. Based on this, we design and implement a regionally reconfigurable high-bandwidth domain that augments existing electrical interconnects using optical circuit switching (OCS), achieving scalability while maintaining rapid adaptability. We build a fully functional MixNet prototype with commodity hardware and a customized collective communication runtime. Our prototype trains state-of-the-art MoE models with in-training topology reconfiguration across 32 A100 GPUs. Large-scale packet-level simulations show that MixNet achieves performance comparable to a non-blocking fat-tree fabric while boosting the networking cost efficiency (e.g., performance per dollar) of four representative MoE models by 1.2×–1.5× and 1.9×–2.3× at 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps link bandwidths, respectively.
Xudong Liao, Yijun Sun, Han Tian, Xinchen Wan, Yilun Jin, Zilong Wang 0007, Zhenghang Ren, Wenxue Li 0004, Kin Fai Tse, Zhizhen Zhong, Guyue Liu, Ying Zhang 0022, Xiaofeng Ye, Yiming Zhang 0003, Kai Chen 0005
SIGCOMM10