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During this process, ablation experiments and significance tests are conducted on WARN, and comprehensive analyses of various indicators for WARN, ResNet-18, ResNet-50, Swin Transformer v2, EfficientNet, and Vision Transformer (ViT) are performed in retinal disease classification tasks. Finally, data provided by Shanxi Eye Hospital are used for testing, and classification results are analyzed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>WARN demonstrates excellent performance on the public OCTDL dataset. Ablation experiments and significance tests confirm the effectiveness of WARN, achieving an accuracy of 90.68%, F1-score of 91.29%, AUC of 97.50%, precision of 93.31%, and recall of 90.68% with relatively short training time. 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