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Kin Fai Tse
dblp:397/3274
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-4687-5539ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| 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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
High-performance computing
collective communication |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training · SIGCOMM 2025 |
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning
distributed training communication |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 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 |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 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 |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts TrainingabstractMixture-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 |
SIGCOMM | 10 |