Keras load_model with custom objects doesn't work properly

Question

Setting

As already mentioned in the title, I got a problem with my custom loss function, when trying to load the saved model. My loss looks as follows:

def weighted_cross_entropy(weights):

    weights = K.variable(weights)

    def loss(y_true, y_pred):
        y_pred = K.clip(y_pred, K.epsilon(), 1-K.epsilon())

        loss = y_true * K.log(y_pred) * weights
        loss = -K.sum(loss, -1)
        return loss

    return loss

weighted_loss = weighted_cross_entropy([0.1,0.9])

So during training, I used the weighted_loss function as loss function and everything worked well. When training is finished I save the model as .h5file with the standard model.save function from keras API.

Problem

When I am trying to load the model via

model = load_model(path,custom_objects={"weighted_loss":weighted_loss})

I am getting a ValueError telling me that the loss is unknown.

Error

The error message looks as follows:

File "...\predict.py", line 29, in my_script
"weighted_loss": weighted_loss})
File "...\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\processing\lib\site-packages\keras\engine\saving.py", line 419, in load_model
model = _deserialize_model(f, custom_objects, compile)
File "...\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\processing\lib\site-packages\keras\engine\saving.py", line 312, in _deserialize_model
sample_weight_mode=sample_weight_mode)
File "...\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\processing\lib\site-packages\keras\engine\training.py", line 139, in compile
loss_function = losses.get(loss)
File "...\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\processing\lib\site-packages\keras\losses.py", line 133, in get
return deserialize(identifier)
File "...\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\processing\lib\site-packages\keras\losses.py", line 114, in deserialize
printable_module_name='loss function')
File "...\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\processing\lib\site-packages\keras\utils\generic_utils.py", line 165, in deserialize_keras_object
':' + function_name)
ValueError: Unknown loss function:loss

Questions

How can I fix this problem? May it be possible that the reason for that is my wrapped loss definition? So keras doesn't know, how to handle the weights variable?

Answer 1

Your loss function's name is loss (i.e. def loss(y_true, y_pred):). Therefore, when loading back the model you need to specify 'loss' as its name:

model = load_model(path, custom_objects={'loss': weighted_loss})