US Patent 11582569 Fitting agent and method of determining hearing device parameters

A fitting agent for a hearing device and related method is disclosed, wherein the fitting agent is configured to initialize a user model comprising a user preference function; obtain a primary test setting for the hearing device; obtain a secondary test setting for the hearing device; present the primary test setting and the secondary test setting to a user; detect a user input of a preferred test setting indicative of a preference for either the primary test setting or the secondary test setting; and update the user model based on hearing device parameters of the preferred test setting, wherein to obtain the secondary test setting comprises: obtain a candidate set of candidate test settings; determine an uncertainty parameter for each candidate test setting; and select the secondary test setting from the candidate set of candidate test settings based on the uncertainty parameters of the candidate test settings.