diff --git a/.github/workflows/userbenchmark-regression-detector.yml b/.github/workflows/userbenchmark-regression-detector.yml
index 3d7261e425..fe5146c4ff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/userbenchmark-regression-detector.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/userbenchmark-regression-detector.yml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -d .userbenchmark ]; then rm -Rf .userbenchmark; fi
 
           # TODO: scale this to run other benchmarks, but let's start with optim
-          python -m userbenchmark.optim.run -m BERT_pytorch -d cuda -o AdamW --df no_foreach -f pt2_
+          python -m userbenchmark.optim.run_optim_benchmarks -c ${{ github.event.inputs.userbenchmark_options }}
           cp -r ./.userbenchmark/optim ../benchmark-output
       - name: Detect potential regressions
         continue-on-error: true
diff --git a/userbenchmark/optim/run_optim_benchmarks.py b/userbenchmark/optim/run_optim_benchmarks.py
index a264ef2c26..097d7d30a6 100644
--- a/userbenchmark/optim/run_optim_benchmarks.py
+++ b/userbenchmark/optim/run_optim_benchmarks.py
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ def main() -> None:
     assert not OUTPUT_DIR.exists() or not any(OUTPUT_DIR.glob("*")), \
            f'{OUTPUT_DIR} must be empty or nonexistent. Its contents will be wiped by this script.'
 
+    command = [sys.executable, '-m', 'userbenchmark.optim.run', '-m', 'BERT_pytorch', '-d', 'cuda', '-o', 'Adam', '--df', 'no_foreach', '-f', 'pt2_']
+    completed_process = subprocess.run(command, check=True)
+    # While it is certainly unexpected for a subprocess to fail, we don't want to halt entirely
+    # as there can be valuable benchmarks to gather from the other subprocesses.
+    if completed_process.returncode != 0:
+        print(f'OH NO, the subprocess for model {m} and device {d} exited with {completed_process.returncode}!')
+
+    return
     # Run benchmarks in subprocesses to take isolate contexts and memory
     for m, d in itertools.product(args.models, args.devices):
         command = [sys.executable, '-m', 'userbenchmark.optim.run', '--continue-on-error',