.. _method-adaptive_sampling-fitness_metric-predicted_variance:

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predicted_variance
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Pick points with highest variance


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* None


**Description**


The predicted variance metric uses the predicted
variance of the Gaussian process surrogate as the score of a candidate
point. Thus, the adaptively chosen points will be in areas of highest
uncertainty according to the Gaussian process model.


