They’re not. Cross entropy loss is E[-log q] where q is a probability. You could convert the model outputs x into probabilities using some other function like q = 1/Z x^2, and compute cross entropy loss just fine.
Behold the softmax: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.11/generated/torch.nn.CrossE...
Behold the softmax: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.11/generated/torch.nn.CrossE...