@misc{lit_2609_35472,
  title = { {Why Deterministic PRM Guidance Underperforms in Discrete Diffusion Reasoning} },
  author = {Yan Zhan and Shaobo Liu and Zhijun Gao},
  year = {2026},
  note = {arXiv preprint},
  eprint = {2609.35472},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35472}
}