@inproceedings{3052733, title = "Development and convergence analysis of training algorithms with local learning rate adaptation", author = "Magoulas, GD and Plagianakos, VP and Vrahatis, MN", year = "2000", pages = "21-26", publisher = "IEEE Comput. Soc", booktitle = "IJCNN 2000: PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE-INNS-ENNS INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOL I", doi = "10.1109/IJCNN.2000.857808", keywords = "globally convergent algorithms; local learning rate adaptation; batch training algorithms; gradient descent; feedforward neural networks", abstract = "A new theorem for the development and convergence analysis of supervised training algorithms with an adaptive learning rate for each weight is presented. Based on this theoretical result, a strategy is proposed to automatically adapt the search direction, as well as the stepsize length along the resultant search direction. This strategy is applied to some well known local learning algorithms to investigate its effectiveness." }