diff --git a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/config.rs b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/config.rs
index 8eace4a08..52c8a8102 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/config.rs
+++ b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/config.rs
@@ -915,6 +915,11 @@ pub struct DQNHyperparameters {
     /// L_total = L_c51 + iqn_lambda * L_iqn
     /// Range [0.0, 2.0]: 0.0 = C51 only, 0.5 = balanced, 1.0 = equal weight
     pub iqn_lambda: f32,
+    /// Mixture-of-Experts load-balancing aux loss weight.
+    /// Default: 0.01 (anti-collapse only — prevents init-noise-dominated
+    /// single-expert lock-in without forcing uniform utilization).
+    /// Hyperopt search range: [0.001, 0.1].
+    pub moe_lambda: Option<f32>,
     /// Spectral norm σ_max — constrains ||W||_σ ≤ σ_max.
     /// Range [1.0, 10.0]. Default 3.0 (permits Xavier scaling, prevents Q-explosion).
     pub spectral_norm_sigma_max: f32,
@@ -1629,6 +1634,9 @@ impl DQNHyperparameters {
             // Plan 3 Task 8 B.3: GPU-only seeded warm-start.
             // 100k samples ≈ first 5 production-scale collection epochs.
             replay_seed_steps: 100_000,
+
+            // MoE load-balancing aux loss weight (Phase 1: additive field only).
+            moe_lambda: Some(0.01),
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md b/docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md
index 856e1c996..3149aae0f 100644
--- a/docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md
+++ b/docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md
@@ -745,3 +745,5 @@ The 3 remaining Orphan rows are:
 
 <!-- 2026-04-27: distributional_q_tests.rs — code-review fixups (u32::div_ceil for grid-dim; tightened OOB validation against B0_SIZE on Thompson + argmax read paths). No semantic change. -->
 
+<!-- 2026-04-27: config.rs — Phase 1 Task 1.1: add `moe_lambda: Option<f32>` hyperparameter (default Some(0.01)) to DQNHyperparameters. Pure additive field; no kernel, no ISV slot, no hot-path consumer in this commit. Wiring into GpuDqnTrainConfig happens in a later Phase 1 task. -->
+