def clean_semver(cls, version_spec):
        return re.sub(r"([<>=~])\s+?v?", "\\1", version_spec, re.IGNORECASE)
def _cost_gp(self,x):
        """
        Predicts the time cost of evaluating the function at x.
        """
        m, _, _, _ = self.cost_model.predict_withGradients(x)
        return np.exp(m)