Balanced Sparse Tree: A Scalable Network Topology for Large Language Models

Published in The 40th ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM, CCF-A), 2026

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Shaoteng Liu, Dejun Kong, Huitian Wang, Hongji Dong, Xiangyu Chen, Yi Zhang, Xiaotian Zhou, Peng Dong, Rui Meng, Fuguang Huang, Xia Zhu, Xiaofeng Gao, Bingyang Liu, Guihai Chen, Balanced Sparse Tree: A Scalable Network Topology for Large Language Models, The 40th ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMMM), Denver, USA, August 17-21, 2026.