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Furthermore, existing automated disease identification methods in cauliflower often neglect crucial computational performance metrics within computer vision algorithms, such as complexity, inference speed and training time. This study introduces LiteMixer, a novel lightweight model designed to address these challenges. The Lightweight Mixed-Domain Feature Extraction module (LMFE) meticulously captures global image features, followed by a maximum pooling layer that downscales the resulting multidimensional feature matrix. The Plug-and-Play Multi-Scale Lightweight Convolutional Attention Fusion module (MLCAF) integrates multichannel spatial features, connecting to fully connected layers for the final classification. Ablation experiments highlight the effectiveness of the LMFE module coupled with the MLCAF module. Comparative analyses against state-of-the-art and other lightweight models demonstrate LiteMixer achieving the highest accuracy in identifying cauliflower diseases at 99.86%. 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