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OK, I somehow misunderstood the canonical exact set cover, the weighted exact set cover problem which involves restriction on summation is a very different problem. One draft (arxiv.org/abs/1302.5820) gives proof on NP hardness of weighted exact set cover.
Thanks Emil. $\lambda$ is one input. As to canonical exact cover problem, each set is assigned with identical weight, people check whether the number of sets (also is the sum of weights in the same time) exceeds one given integer number. My proposed problem has two differences with the canonical one, firstly, sets are given different weights, secondly, 'average weight' in stead of summation of weights are considered.