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The combined consistency and view-specific representations serve as input for downstream tasks, enabling precise and task-aware predictions. When benchmarked against 16 state-of-the-art molecular pretraining methods, MMPCS achieved the highest average performance across both classification and regression tasks for molecular property prediction. It also delivered outstanding results in predicting drug-target binding affinity and cancer drug response, demonstrating its robustness and broad applicability. 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