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In this study, in order to realize the rapid and accurate identification of apple leaf disease, a new lightweight convolutional neural network RegNet was proposed. A series of comparative experiments had been conducted based on 2141 images of 5 apple leaf diseases (rust, scab, ring rot, panonychus ulmi, and healthy leaves) in the field environment. To assess the effectiveness of the RegNet model, a series of comparison experiments were conducted with state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNN) such as ShuffleNet, EfficientNet-B0, MobileNetV3, and Vision Transformer. The results show that RegNet-Adam with a learning rate of 0.0001 obtained an average accuracy of 99.8% on the validation set and an overall accuracy of 99.23% on the test set, outperforming all other pre-trained models. 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