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Accurate cancer subtyping is crucial for formulating personalized treatment plans and improving patient survival rates. The underlying mechanisms that drive cancer progression can be comprehensively understood by analyzing multi-omics data. However, the high noise levels in omics data often pose challenges in capturing consistent representations and adequately integrating their information. This paper proposed a novel variational autoencoder-based deep learning model, named Deeply Integrating Latent Consistent Representations (DILCR). Firstly, multiple independent variational autoencoders and contrastive loss functions were designed to separate noise from omics data and capture latent consistent representations. Subsequently, an Attention Deep Integration Network was proposed to integrate consistent representations across different omics levels effectively. Additionally, we introduced the Improved Deep Embedded Clustering algorithm to make integrated variable clustering friendly. 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