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A layer dropping approach was proposed to prune redundant higher Transformer encoder layers to reduce computational burden while retaining low-level and mid-level acoustic representations relevant to snoring pathology. A cross-layer attention mechanism was introduced to integrate complementary features from different Transformer layers, balancing fine-grained acoustic detail with contextual information. Second, by simulating clinical AHI calculation processes, we introduced statistics including both absolute counts and ratio-based measures to build a regression model for AHI estimation.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Evaluations under subject-dependent and subject-independent settings showed that the proposed framework achieved high abnormal-snoring detection performance with a trade-off between accuracy and computational cost. 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