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This paper presents an intelligent framework based on Light Gradient Boosting Machine integration for fault detection and a Flying Fox Optimization Algorithm in dynamic self-healing. The LGBM model provides very accurate and scalable performance related to effective fault identification, whereas FFOA optimizes the recovery strategies to minimize downtown and maximize network resilience. Extensive performance evaluation of the developed system using a large dataset was presented and compared with the state-of-the-art heuristic-based traditional methods and machine learning models. The results showed that the proposed framework could achieve 94.6% fault detection accuracy, with a minimum of 120 milliseconds of recovery time and network resilience of 98.5%. 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