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With the continuous advancement of sequencing technologies, the recognition of cell types has evolved from analyzing single-omics scRNA-seq data to integrating multi-omics single-cell data. However, existing methods for integrative analysis of high-dimensional multi-omics single-cell sequencing data have several limitations, including reliance on specific distribution assumptions of the data, sensitivity to noise, and clustering accuracy constrained by independent clustering methods. These issues have restricted improvements in the accuracy of cell type identification and hindered the application of such methods to large-scale datasets for cell type recognition. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method for aligning and integrating single-cell multi-omics data\u2014scECDA.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The scECDA employs independently designed autoencoders that can autonomously learn the feature distributions of each omics dataset. By incorporating enhanced contrastive learning and differential attention mechanisms, the scECDA effectively reduces the interference of noise during data integration. The model design exhibits high flexibility, enabling adaptation to single-cell omics data generated by different technological platforms. It directly outputs integrated latent features and end-to-end cell clustering results. Through the analysis of the distribution of latent features, the scECDA can effectively identify key biological markers and precisely distinguish cell subtypes, recover cluster-specific motif and infer trajectory. The scECDA was applied to eight paired single-cell multi-omics datasets, covering data generated by 10X Multiome, CITE-seq, and TEA-seq technologies. 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