ArXiv v2 studies whether an explicit style instruction can erase user patterns that a personalized system is intended to preserve, a failure mode it calls personalization collapse. PsPLUG freezes a Qwen3 backbone and prepends three continuous embeddings: a shared system vector, a user vector, and a query-dependent vector. To build the user vector, Qwen3-8B summarizes ten history items with a task-specific prompt; BGE-base-en-v1.5 encodes that profile and a trainable MLP projects it into the LLM space. Training treats the real user response as preferred and an impersonal style-conditioned generation as rejected in a Bradley-Terry/DPO loss. At inference, alpha scales only the user vector.
Without style instructions, the paper evaluates six LaMP tasks. PsPLUG is best on 12 of 15 metrics, ties RAG on LaMP-7 METEOR, and trails OPPU on LaMP-2 accuracy and RAG on LaMP-5 METEOR. With four styles, warm, critical, concise, and elaborative, on LaMP-4, LaMP-5, and LaMP-7, the numerical values place it first or second in 22 of 24 ROUGE cells. It falls outside the top two on LaMP-5 concise ROUGE-L and LaMP-7 critical ROUGE-L. The table contains at least six incorrect best/second markings, although the over-80-percent claim still holds when ranks are recomputed. No repeated runs, intervals, or significance tests are reported; several differences are only 0.001 to 0.005.
The evidence does not cleanly separate persona from style. The positive response was written by the user without the newly imposed style instruction, while the negative follows that style; the contrast changes personalization and style compliance at the same time and cannot identify a pure residual. The style tables also call ROUGE against the original unstyled reference a personalization measure: obeying the requested style can reduce overlap, while ignoring it can increase overlap. Human and GPT-5.2 Pro evaluation is shown only for LaMP-7. The paper does not report how many items were annotated, who annotated them, inter-rater agreement, or raw ratings. Correlations use means aggregated over five systems and four styles, at most 20 points, rather than item-level judgments and have no uncertainty. They therefore support directional rank association, not claims that the judge is nearly indistinguishable from humans or measures true persona adherence. The 8B values in Table 4 also conflict with Table 2; for example, LaMP-5 METEOR is 0.321 versus 0.398.
Reproducibility is blocked. The anonymous code link in v2 has expired. A public homonymous repository contains five partial LaMP-7 scripts, but it cannot be unambiguously tied to the expired archive and includes no data, results, checkpoints, dependencies, judges, human evaluation, tests, or CI. Training saves nested checkpoint keys incompatible with the flat keys required by inference; alpha is not exposed; the DPO reference is another frozen PsPLUG policy copied at initialization rather than the equation's base model; and the other tasks and style sweeps are absent. The contribution supports compact-profile prompting as a plausible personalization direction and shows that explicit styles alter reported LaMP behavior. It does not establish mathematical disentanglement, a calibrated trade-off, measured efficiency, privacy, psychological personality, or end-to-end reproduction. Bibliographically, v2 remains a preprint and replaces v1's title, abstract, and author order.