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To Reviewer 1: [Intuition of benefits of advanced data augmentation] In line 198, we explained the theoretical3 connection between advanced data augmentation and better semi-supervised learning performance. We stated that4 "Importantly, the number of components is actually decided by the quality of the augmentation operation: an ideal5 augmentation should be able to reach all other examples of the same category given a starting instance.