Table 1.

Predicted mean and uncertainty of the alloys in three iterations with exploitation, exploration and random search strategies.

iteration	strategy	alloy	mean TEC ($\times$10−6 K−1)	uncertainty ($\times$10−6 K−1)
1	exploitation	1	1.19	1.55
		2	1.81	2.35
		3	1.86	2.39
	exploration	1	7.77	6.16
		2	22.60	5.51
		3	19.71	4.44
	random search	1	7.04	6.32
		2	15.28	0.91
		3	12.98	0.92
2	exploitation	1	1.22	1.19
		2	1.23	1.23
		3	1.24	1.31
	exploration	1	5.66	4.56
		2	15.66	4.49
		3	6.33	4.45
	random search	1	21.64	5.91
		2	10.71	0.90
		3	12.08	0.90
3	exploitation	1	0.63	0.85
		2	0.90	1.34
		3	1.04	1.42
	exploration	1	10.26	4.79
		2	5.61	4.60
		3	5.18	4.44
	random search	1	14.20	5.80
		2	12.88	1.03
		3	12.92	1.04