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Next, the SE-Conv1d network model is employed to enhance key features while suppressing noise interference adaptively. In the improved Informer model, the ProbSparse self-attention mechanism and self-attention distillation technique efficiently capture global dependencies in long sequences within the rolling bearing dataset, significantly reducing computational complexity and improving accuracy. Finally, experiments on the CWRU and HUST datasets demonstrate that the proposed model achieves accuracy rates of 99.78% and 99.45%, respectively. 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