[codex] Fix shared embeddings and string sparse validation

[shenweichen]

Summary

• Reuse embedding layers by embedding_name for both SparseFeat and VarLenSparseFeat instead of recreating and overwriting duplicate entries.
• Preserve sequence masking when a shared embedding is used by varlen sparse features.
• Raise a clear ValueError when a string SparseFeat is configured without use_hash=True, so users do not hit TensorFlow's lower-level string-to-int embedding lookup failure.
• Add regression coverage for shared embeddings and ESMM string sparse feature configuration.

Why

Fixes #419 by making shared embedding semantics explicit and avoiding repeated initialization for the same embedding_name. Fixes #548 by clarifying the supported path for string sparse features in ESMM and other models: use use_hash=True, or pre-encode values to integer ids before passing them to DeepCTR.

Validation

• git diff --check
• python -m compileall -q deepctr tests
• python -m pytest -q tests/feature_test.py tests/models/MTL_test.py was attempted locally, but this environment does not have TensorFlow installed (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tensorflow').

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 93.75000% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 78.23%. Comparing base (b6a623a) to head (242ec66).
⚠️ Report is 2 commits behind head on master.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
deepctr/feature_column.py	77.77%	2 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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+ Hits         2581     2606      +25     
- Misses        723      725       +2     

Flag	Coverage Δ
pytest	78.23% <93.75%> (+0.11%)	⬆️

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