diff --git a/.github/workflows/python_pycsou.yml b/.github/workflows/python_pycsou.yml
index 61f89fa5..dfdafb9b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python_pycsou.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python_pycsou.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       max-parallel: 12
       matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-12, windows-latest]
         python-version: [3.9, "3.10"]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/configs/train_unrolledADMM.yaml b/configs/train_unrolledADMM.yaml
index 52481bd7..2c3023dd 100644
--- a/configs/train_unrolledADMM.yaml
+++ b/configs/train_unrolledADMM.yaml
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ optimizer:
   final_lr: False   # if set, linearly decay to this value
   exp_decay: False  # if set, exponentially decay with this value
   slow_start: False  #float how much to reduce lr for first epoch
+  cosine_decay_warmup: False  # if set, cosine decay with warmup of 5%
   # Decay LR in step fashion: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR.html
   step: False     # int, period of learning rate decay. False to not apply
   gamma: 0.1      # float, factor for learning rate decay 
diff --git a/lensless/recon/utils.py b/lensless/recon/utils.py
index f7df5e1c..bf8a74e8 100644
--- a/lensless/recon/utils.py
+++ b/lensless/recon/utils.py
@@ -812,6 +812,24 @@ def learning_rate_function(epoch):
                 self.optimizer, lr_lambda=learning_rate_function, last_epoch=last_epoch
             )
 
+        elif self.optimizer_config.cosine_decay_warmup:
+
+            total_iterations = len(self.train_dataloader) * self.n_epoch
+            warmup_steps = int(0.05 * total_iterations)
+
+            def cosine_decay_with_warmup(step, warmup_steps, total_steps):
+                if step < warmup_steps:
+                    return step / warmup_steps
+                progress = (step - warmup_steps) / (total_steps - warmup_steps)
+                return 0.5 * (1 + math.cos(math.pi * progress))
+
+            self.scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(
+                self.optimizer,
+                lr_lambda=lambda step: cosine_decay_with_warmup(
+                    step, warmup_steps, total_iterations
+                ),
+            )
+
         elif self.optimizer_config.step:
 
             self.scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR(