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This paper proposes a link prediction model based on multidimensional features, which integrates prediction indicators of node features, path features, and content features. In the model, the entropy weight method is employed to integrate various node similarity indicators, the heterogeneous influence of intermediate links and nodes is incorporated to fully emphasize the issue of heterogeneous paths, and the content similarity feature indicator based on patent text topic analysis integrates multiple distance similarity metrics. To improve prediction accuracy, the Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) method is adopted to determine the optimal weights for the three-dimensional indicators. The comparative experimental results show that the multidimensional prediction model can improve prediction accuracy significantly. 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