@article{trainfortheworstplanforthebest, title = {Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions}, author = {Jaeyeon Kim and Kulin Shah and Vasilis Kontonis and Sham Kakade and Sitan Chen}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2502.06768}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06768v2}, }