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Moreover, low-light images often exhibit uneven brightness across regions, making it necessary to ensure that locally enhanced patches remain visually coherent when combined into the full image. To address these limitations, we propose P-PatchDiff, a scalable progressive patch diffusion framework for low-light image enhancement that dynamically adjusts patch size throughout the denoising process, enabling a gradual shift from local to global views. A Multi-Patch Alignment strategy is also introduced to normalise features across varying patch scales using an estimated global brightness proxy. Rather than pursuing pixel-level reconstruction accuracy, P-PatchDiff focuses on scalability and coherent brightness across the whole image, allowing the model to perceive multi-scale information and better enhance regions with varying brightness. 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