The field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, with a focus on improving the reliability and performance of large language models (LLMs) and graph reasoning techniques. Recent research has highlighted the importance of confidence estimation, model collapse mitigation, and explainable methods for temporal knowledge graph forecasting. Noteworthy papers include ForTIFAI, which proposes a confidence-aware loss function to mitigate model collapse, and GrACE, which introduces a generative approach to confidence elicitation for LLMs. Additionally, Zero-shot Graph Reasoning via Retrieval Augmented Framework with LLMs demonstrates a training-free method for graph reasoning tasks, achieving high accuracy and efficiency. These innovative approaches are expected to have a significant impact on the development of more reliable and effective AI systems.