The PyTorch documentation says:
Returns a new tensor with a dimension of size one inserted at the specified position. [...]
>>> x = torch.tensor([1, 2, 3, 4]) >>> torch.unsqueeze(x, 0) tensor([[ 1, 2, 3, 4]]) >>> torch.unsqueeze(x, 1) tensor([[ 1], [ 2], [ 3], [ 4]])
If you look at the shape of the array before and after, you see that before it was (4,) and after it is (1, 4) (when second parameter is 0) and (4, 1) (when second parameter is 1). So a 1 was inserted in the shape of the array at axis 0 or 1, depending on the value of the second parameter.
That is opposite of np.squeeze() (nomenclature borrowed from MATLAB) which removes axes of size 1 (singletons).