diff --git a/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_model_sweep.py b/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_model_sweep.py
index b6e749f2..eb1e2d60 100644
--- a/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_model_sweep.py
+++ b/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_model_sweep.py
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ def _validate_args(
     experiment_config: Optional[Union[ExperimentConfig, str]] = None,
     common_model_args: Optional[dict] = {},
     rank_metric: Optional[str] = "loss",
+    custom_fit_params: Optional[dict] = {},
 ):
     assert task in [
         "classification",
@@ -149,6 +150,8 @@ def _validate_args(
         "lower_is_better",
         "higher_is_better",
     ], "rank_metric[1] must be one of ['lower_is_better', 'higher_is_better'], but" f" got {rank_metric[1]}"
+    if "metrics" in custom_fit_params.keys():
+        assert rank_metric[0] == "loss", "only loss is supported as the rank_metric when using custom metrics"
 
 
 def model_sweep(
@@ -172,6 +175,7 @@ def model_sweep(
     progress_bar: bool = True,
     verbose: bool = True,
     suppress_lightning_logger: bool = True,
+    custom_fit_params: Optional[dict] = {},
 ):
     """Compare multiple models on the same dataset.
 
@@ -231,6 +235,10 @@ def model_sweep(
 
         suppress_lightning_logger (bool, optional): If True, will suppress the lightning logger. Defaults to True.
 
+        custom_fit_params (dict, optional): A dict specifying custom loss, metrics and optimizer.
+                The behviour of these custom parameters is similar to those passed through the `fit` method
+                of `TabularModel`.
+
         Returns:
             results: Training results.
 
@@ -252,6 +260,7 @@ def model_sweep(
         experiment_config=experiment_config,
         common_model_args=common_model_args,
         rank_metric=rank_metric,
+        custom_fit_params=custom_fit_params,
     )
     if suppress_lightning_logger:
         suppress_lightning_logs()
@@ -326,7 +335,7 @@ def _init_tabular_model(m):
             name = tabular_model.name
             if verbose:
                 logger.info(f"Training {name}")
-            model = tabular_model.prepare_model(datamodule)
+            model = tabular_model.prepare_model(datamodule, **custom_fit_params)
             if progress_bar:
                 progress.update(task_p, description=f"Training {name}", advance=1)
             with OutOfMemoryHandler(handle_oom=True) as handler:
diff --git a/tests/test_common.py b/tests/test_common.py
index d0c3e26c..b02b0782 100644
--- a/tests/test_common.py
+++ b/tests/test_common.py
@@ -1143,7 +1143,16 @@ def test_tta_regression(
 
 
 def _run_model_compare(
-    task, model_list, data_config, trainer_config, optimizer_config, train, test, metric, rank_metric
+    task,
+    model_list,
+    data_config,
+    trainer_config,
+    optimizer_config,
+    train,
+    test,
+    metric,
+    rank_metric,
+    custom_fit_params={},
 ):
     model_list = copy.deepcopy(model_list)
     if isinstance(model_list, list):
@@ -1161,6 +1170,7 @@ def _run_model_compare(
         metrics_params=metric[1],
         metrics_prob_input=metric[2],
         rank_metric=rank_metric,
+        custom_fit_params=custom_fit_params,
     )
 
 
@@ -1249,6 +1259,66 @@ def test_model_compare_regression(regression_data, model_list, continuous_cols,
     # assert best_model.model._get_name() in best_models
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_list", ["lite", MODEL_CONFIG_MODEL_SWEEP_TEST])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("continuous_cols", [list(DATASET_CONTINUOUS_COLUMNS)])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("categorical_cols", [["HouseAgeBin"]])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "metric",
+    [
+        (["mean_squared_error"], [{}], [False]),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("rank_metric", [("loss", "lower_is_better")])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "custom_fit_params",
+    [
+        {
+            "loss": torch.nn.L1Loss(),
+            "metrics": [fake_metric],
+            "metrics_prob_inputs": [True],
+            "optimizer": torch.optim.Adagrad,
+        },
+    ],
+)
+def test_model_compare_custom(
+    regression_data, model_list, continuous_cols, categorical_cols, metric, rank_metric, custom_fit_params
+):
+    (train, test, target) = regression_data
+    data_config = DataConfig(
+        target=target,
+        continuous_cols=continuous_cols,
+        categorical_cols=categorical_cols,
+        handle_missing_values=True,
+        handle_unknown_categories=True,
+    )
+    trainer_config = TrainerConfig(
+        max_epochs=3,
+        checkpoints=None,
+        early_stopping=None,
+        accelerator="cpu",
+        fast_dev_run=True,
+    )
+    optimizer_config = OptimizerConfig()
+    comp_df, best_model = _run_model_compare(
+        "regression",
+        model_list,
+        data_config,
+        trainer_config,
+        optimizer_config,
+        train,
+        test,
+        metric,
+        rank_metric,
+        custom_fit_params=custom_fit_params,
+    )
+    if model_list == "lite":
+        assert len(comp_df) == 3
+    else:
+        assert len(comp_df) == len(model_list)
+    if custom_fit_params.get("metric", None) == fake_metric:
+        assert "test_fake_metric" in comp_df.columns()
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_config_class", MODEL_CONFIG_SAVE_TEST)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("continuous_cols", [list(DATASET_CONTINUOUS_COLUMNS)])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("categorical_cols", [["HouseAgeBin"]])