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What is a custom loss function in Keras and when is it needed?
Updated May 16, 2026
Short answer
Custom loss functions define task-specific optimization goals.
Deep explanation
They are required when standard losses (MSE, cross-entropy) do not capture business objectives such as ranking, fairness, or imbalance handling.
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