If you are not trusting a very clearly named flag, perhaps the best way to clear your doubt is not asking on a forum, but reading the source code: https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/master/torchvision/datasets/cifar.py
If you are not trusting a very clearly named flag, perhaps the best way to clear your doubt is not asking on a forum, but reading the source code: https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/master/torchvision/datasets/cifar.py