@article{thinkingoutoforderwhenoutputorderstopsre,
  title = {Thinking Out of Order: When Output Order Stops Reflecting Reasoning Order in Diffusion Language Models},
  author = {Longxuan Yu and Yu Fu and Shaorong Zhang and Hui Liu and Mukund Varma T and Greg Ver Steeg and Yue Dong},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.22035},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22035},
}