What does "Augment" mean?

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Augmenting is the process of improving or adding to something to make it better or more useful. In the context of models that work with both images and words, augmenting involves changing images in different ways or using extra information about classes to help the model learn more effectively.

This can include techniques like rotating, flipping, or changing colors in images, as well as providing detailed descriptions in text. By doing this, the model gets a wider variety of examples to learn from, which helps it understand new concepts better.

In simpler terms, augmenting is about giving more variety and information to a learning system so that it can make better predictions or recognize things more accurately.